FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
skill to read in a new language the 
secrets that the moss and leaves hide 
^ There was so much to note and 
learn and remember in those days! 
This bit of moss with the curiously 
measured angular cut in it, as if the 
Wood Folk had taken to studying 
Euclid, — how wonderful it was at 
first! The game has been here; it 
was a deer's foot that drew that sharp 
triangle ; and I must measure and feel 
rr/^- it carefully, and press aside the moss 
and study the leaves to know whether 
i^^:^'-it were my big buck or no, and how 
STILL HUNTING 
SO innocently. 
