FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
gone out on the old wood road, to 
lose myself for a little while in the 
intense darkness and uproar, and to 
feel again the wild thrill of the ele- 
ments. But the night was too dark, 
the storm too tierce. Every few mo- 
ments I would blunder against a tree, 
which told me I was off the road; 
and to lose the road meant to wander 
all night in the storm-swept woods. 
So 1 went back for my lantern, with 
which 1 again started down the old 
cart path, a little circle of wavering, 
jumping shadows about me, the one 
gray spot in the midst of universal 
darkness. 
I had gone but a few hundred yards 
when there was a rush — it was not 
61 
Summer 
