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very same path that it before has chosen when moving 

 from place to place in seeking food. Even if scared 

 away from an accustomed pass, it returns to it again 

 soon after. 



In summer when the air is filled with insects and they 

 buzz in countless numbers about the animals exposed 

 to their persecutions, the roe will seek shelter in the 

 high corn, and there, lying on the cool earth, with 

 the full ears bending over it, remain for hours thus 

 sheltered and embowered. It prefers light places to 

 the darker forest ; meadows, seed-fields, glades, and hill- 

 side slopes. When the buck is not alone, he will be 

 found with his two kids and their mother, but roes 

 never herd in troops like fallow or red-deer. When 

 such family is on the move, the doe is almost always in 

 advance, and the buck comes last of all. 



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