WILDERNESS WAYS. 



I. MEGALEEP THE WANDERER. 



|EGALEEP is the big woodland 

 caribou of the northern wilder- 

 ness. His Milicete name means 

 The Wandering One, but it 

 ought to mean the Mysterious 

 and the Changeful as well. If 

 you hear that he is bold and 

 fearless, that is true ; and if you are 

 told that he is shy and wary and inap- 

 proachable, that is also true. For he is 

 never the same two days in succession. 

 At once shy and bold, solitary and gre- 

 garious ; restless as a cloud, yet clinging to his feed- 

 ing grounds, spite of wolves and hunters, till he leaves 

 them of his own free will ; wild as Kakagos the raven, 

 but inquisitive as a blue jay, — he is the most fascinat- 

 ing and the least known of all the deer. 



One thing is quite sure, before you begin your 

 study : he is never where his tracks are, nor any- 



