FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
glancing about furtively to see if the 
"You let those sheep of yours 
alone till the first of October; then 
1 '11 help you round 'em up. Just 
now they're worth forty dollars 
apiece to the state. 1 '11 see that the 
warden collects it, too, if you shoot 
another." 
" Sho ! Mister, I ain't a-shootin' no 
deer. Hain't seen a deer round here 
in ten year or more. I just took a 
crack at a pa'tridge 'at kwitted at me, 
top o' a stump " — 
But as he vanished among the hem- 
locks, trailing his old gun, I knew 
white sand showed any blood stains, 
looked up quickly at the changed 
tone — 
