FOLLOWING 
THJS DEER^ 
69 
Summer ^ 
foot stream, spattering out a light 
shower of mud around him ; then, 
because the banks on my side were 
steep and there was no open stretch 
of shore, he leaped for the cover of 
the woods and was gone. 
I thought I had seen the last of him, 
when 1 heard him coming, hump I 
hump I hump! the swift blows of his 
hoofs sounding all together on the 
forest floor. So he flashed by like ^ 
a frightened grouse between me and 
my tent door, barely swerved aside ^iy^^i, 
for my fire, and gave me another 
beautiful run down the old road, 
rising and falling light as 
thistle-down, with the old 
trees arching over him and 
