IX. 



A JACK RABBIT DANCE AND THE 

 FANTAIL GHOST 



UNNING through the 

 whole of our trip, as 

 silver in a brocade, were 

 allusions to the"fantail" 

 a small deer of quite 

 distinct species. Nim- 

 rod, the scientist, pricked up his ears 

 at each hint. 



''It has not been conclusively 

 proven that the "fan tail" exists. 

 Hunters' stories affirm it. An isolated 

 bone or two, but never a complete 

 skeleton, has been produced. The 

 fragments I have seen might have 



