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A CHRISTMAS BUCK 



HROUGHOUT most of the 

 ranch country there are 

 two kinds of deer, the 

 black-tail and the white- 

 tail. The white-tail is the 

 same as the deer of the East ; it is a 

 beautiful creature, a marvel of lightness 

 and grace in all its movements, and 

 loves to dwell in thick timber, so that in ' 

 the plains country it is almost confined^ 

 to the heavily wooded river bottoms. 

 The black-tail is somewhat larger, with! 

 a different and very peculiar gait, con-, 

 sisting of a succession of stiff -legged 

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