H FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
66 
SUMMER 
the trees that lay across the road with 
marvelous ease and grace, and trying 
in twenty pretty ways to make the 
fawn join them. It was plain kinder- 
garten training; the mother by the 
methods of play and imitation was 
teaching her young the difficult trick 
of jumping. The little fellow fol- 
lowed his leaders awkwardly ; but he 
had the spring in him, and was learn- 
ing rapidly to gather himself for the 
rise, and lift his hind feet at the top 
of his jump, and come down with all 
fours together, instead of sprawling 
clumsily as a horse does. 
1 saw the perfection of it a few 
days later. I was sitting before my 
tent door at twilight, watching the 
