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Deer-Hunting on the Am Sable. 



A GENERAL SURPRISE. 



which it would have been impossible to walk, and after a fruitless 

 search, extending to a distance of three miles or so, turned back. 

 Suddenly they heard light footfalls in the tote-road, and with two 

 or three beautiful bounds a young doe alighted within the circle 

 illuminated by the lantern, approached it in wide-eyed wonder, and 

 almost touched it with her nose. A young spike-horn buck followed 

 her, and both stared at the light, their nostrils dilated and quivering, 

 and every limb trembling with mingled excitement and fear. There 

 was an exclamation that could not be suppressed, a vain effort to 

 shoot, and the deer were gone like a flash into the darkness. It was 



