THE DEER^ 
Those were tame animals that, by 
contact with man largely, had kept 
the habit of following, without, how- 
ever, keeping the wild sheep's habit 
of carefully selecting its leaders, — 
leaders who know how to change 
their habits quickly to meet changing 
conditions, as the deer do. And 
there is undoubtedly a parable here, 
would men observingly distil it 
out." 
Whether this new leadership is 
assumed by the bucks, which shed 
their selfishness and grow generous 
to their kind under persecution from 
without, or whether it is thrust upon 
them by the does, which have learned 
quickly that where the big bucks are 
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