FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
65 
SUMMER 
(IJOODS 
any obstacle near him. And then I 
thought of the way a cow gets up, 
first one end, then the other, rising 
from the fore knees at last with pufT ^^^^^ 
and grunt and clacking of joints ; and 
I took my first lesson in wholesome 
respect for the creature whom 1 al- 
ready considered mine by right of 
discovery, and whose splendid head 
I saw, in anticipation, adorning the 
hall of my house — to the utter dis- 
comfiture of Old Wally. 
At another time I crept up to an 
old road beyond the little deer pond, 
where three deer, a mother with her 
fawn, and a young spike-buck, were 
playing. The two larger deer kept 
running up and down, leaping over 
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