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and drop marks on the sand where he stepped 

 out on the beach. I followed his tracks, which 

 were as clear-cut as if in clay, in the damp sand, 

 but merely shallow cup-shaped depressions 

 without form in the hot dry sand. Instead of 

 going inland he had skirted the edge of the dunes 

 at the beach for nearly a mile, only once going 

 back a few rods into the dunes. Passing the 

 high peak of Eagle Dune, he turned abruptly 

 down towards the water, and, at about half tide, 

 his tracks disappeared in the wash of the waves. 

 I searched farther down the beach for his re- 

 turn tracks but, seeing none, I retraced my steps 

 and found he must have walked back about fifty 

 yards up the beach in the water, and had then 

 trotted straight away from the beach, over the 

 side of Eagle Dune and into the bogs and 

 thickets of the interior. He had probably got 

 the wind of some campers farther down the 

 beach. 



Doubtless many times deer are passed unseen 

 in bushy cranberry bogs. These afford good 

 cover for restful days after nights of wandering, 

 of play and of feeding. One June day I fol- 



