FOLLOWING 
THE DEER%, 
herons, when there was a shot and 
a sudden crash over across the pond, 
hi a moment the big buck plunged 
out of the woods and went leaping 
along the shore, his head high, antlers 
back, and the mighty muscles driving 
him up and onward as if invisible 
wings were bearing him. A dozen 
great trees lay fallen across his path, 
one of which, as I afterwards meas- 
ured, lay a clear eight feet above the 
sand. But he never hesitated nor 
broke his splendid stride. He would 
rush at a tree; rise light and swift 
till above it, where he turned as if 
on a pivot, with head thrown back 
to the wind, actually resting an in- 
stant in air at the very top of his 
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