FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
I took the measure of it back to camp 
and found that it corresponded per- 
fectly with the boot tracks of Old 
Wally. There were a few deer here, 
undoubtedly, which he was watching 
jealously for his own benetit in the 
fall hunting". 
When the next still, misty night 
came, it found me afloat on the 
lonely little pond, with a dark lantern 
fastened to an upright stick just in 
front of me in the canoe. In the 
shadow of the shores all was black 
as Egypt ; but out in the middle the 
outlines of the pond could be fol- 
lowed vaguely by the heavy cloud of 
woods against the lighter sky. The 
stillness was intense ; every slightest 
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SUMMER Woods 
