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as by following it away into the brush where you 

 could not see what was going on in the basin. There 

 is no use of sitting down now. There is no proba- 

 bility that there is anything left to sit out. But as it 

 lies in your way back and will cost you neither time 

 nor trouble, you may look at the mouth of the pocket. 

 Ten to one, you will now find the tracks of a deer run- 

 ning out of it. In the future be careful how you trifle 

 with the skulking deer. 



