184 One Deer. 



to fill them in the city. And then, in 

 a condition of supreme contentment I 

 leaned my back against a giant pine, 

 crossed my feet over the buck's glossy 

 flank and lit my pipe. Dick stretched 

 himself out at full length upon the moss 

 near by, and as the blue puffs floated 

 around our heads we told of former ex- 

 ploits with deer and bears until the pipes 

 and the camp-fire burned low. 



