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the skin line that held them, and so escaped. But as a 
rule they have at once found the herd and returned to it, 
even though it may have been feeding many miles away at 
the time. At other times, certain deer have shown a pro- 
pensity to select certain particular spots for grazing, and 
have repeatedly left the main herd and returned to the 
ground of their own selection. The main herd, as a rule, 
get up and feed from daylight to about 11 a.M., then lie 
down and rest until about 4 P.M., about which hour a stag 
would get up and walk round restlessly. If he came too 
near another, the latter would strike viciously at him with his 
head, as if deploring the fact that the time had arrived for 
renewed activity. He would, however, soon arise as if 
under protest, and join the moving group till all the herd 
was afoot. Then, without apparently any reason, it would 
seem to occur to a stag that to migrate ten miles northwest 
or southeast would be advantageous, and off he would go 
at a staid walk, the whole herd falling in and following him 
like a funeral procession. 
The time for fawning came with May, and Mr. Lindsay 
took the deer to highlands as free as possible of the then 
treacherous brooks and Jakes, which were opening beneath 
the spring sun. Our herd was now reduced to two hundred 
does and fifty stags, for we had sent south the fifty deer 
sold to a large lumber concern, three hundred miles to the 
south. These latter had all reached their destination safely 
after their long march, only one stag dying after arrival. 
They were to be used for carrying. supplies over snow to 
far-off logging camps. 
As far as we could count, the does threw one hundred and 
sixty-eight fawns, and of these only eight were born dead or 
