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end o' the pond?" he said, pointing 
away from the deer tracks. *'If ye 
see ary one, send out word, and I '11 
come and fetch 'im. — Needn't foller 
the tracks though ; they wander like 
an old he-bear this time o' year," he 
added earnestly as he went away. 
That afternoon I went over to a 
little pond, a mile distant from my 
camp and deeper in the woods. The 
shore was well cut up with numerous 
deer tracks, and among the lily pads 
^/A ^ everywhere were signs of recent feed- 
ing. There was a man's track here 
^ too, which came cautiously out from 
a thick point of woods, and spied 
about on the shore, and went back 
again more cautiously than before. 
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