iCTOBER, the superb month, 
found me again in the same 
woods, this time not to watch 
and learn, but to follow the big buck 
to his death. Old Wally was ahead 
of me; but the falling leaves had ^, 
done their work well. The deer had >^ 'M 
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deserted the pond ere he began to 
hunt them there in the early and late ^^^fe. 
twilight. Here and there on the f-f 
ridges I found their tracks and saw i[ 
them at a distance, shy, wild, alert, ' ' 
