82 THe Aroostook Woops. 

rustle loudly, and more than ankle deep where blown into the 
little hollows. Upon hearing this noise the listening deer, 
now showing to be wide awake, quickly raises its head 
and directs its eyes at the first glance, exactly to where the 
sound comes from. Seeing walking along one of its own 
kind, it stands intently looking for a moment, when it utters 
a low sound to attract the traveller’s attention. The new 
comer stops, looks, and sees a friend, but remains motionless 
and as intently gazing as the other, when the first to observe, 
after a full moment, takes two or three steps forward, and 
then trots briskly up to within a few feet of the new arrival, 
and after exchanging greetings at this little distance, each 
quietly resume their walking, soon separating and drifting 
away from each other, each to wander and feed by itself 
alone. The pretty red squirrels greet the deer with many 
noisy little barkings, and their loud and long chattering as 
they dart across their path at will, while the birds fly and sing 
all about them without being noticed. All except the impu- 
dent bluejay, the beautiful tattler, who is always a handy by 
nuisance, knowing just where the sportsman is sitting or 
standing, on the watch, and if a deer is approaching he will 
make the forest 1ing with his noisy screamings, while the wary 
buck at this apparent warning, will stop and prick up his 
ears all alert for some danger. We may stand close beside. 
a large tree without moving and have the game pass within 
a few feet of us, perfectly unconscious of our presence, if. we 
have the wind blowing free from the game towards us. But 
the slightest movement on our part, and they catch the human 
eye upon them, a small sized cyclone of leaves, twigs, dirt 
and heels are seen for a moment whirling in the air, and we 
are alone again. 


