230 FAMILIAR LIFE IIT FIELD AND FOREST. 



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comiBg from the farmers in Vermont and New 

 Hampshire because the animal had made some havoc 

 in their cornfields. I do not know how much of an 

 excuse such complaints were to secure a modification 

 in the strict game laws of both 

 States, but I 

 suspect the 

 1 '^ average f ami- 

 IS er was anx- 

 ious to get a 

 better chance at a 

 deer. At pres- 

 ent the laws are 

 so comprehen- 

 sive and effect- 

 ual that the deer 

 has a chance at 

 the farmer! a fact of such slight consequence tliat 

 I think we have no suflicient reason to regret it. 

 Thrice, last summer, three deer made their appearance 

 within a quarter of a mile of my hillside studio, and 

 once two young ones appeared close by the pasture 

 fence on the border of the wood, not more than fifty 

 feet from the piazza rails. Repeatedly deer had been 

 seen on the highway in the spring, and once one was 

 chased on the track by a passing train. 



In 1867 when, as a child, I was taken on a tour 



Two young Deer at El Fureidis. 



