FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
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ing fir tips. Then with a low warn- 
ing he seemed to fade away into the 
friendly woods; and every deer on 
the shore followed him without a 11.^^^^^ 
question. 
This was certainly an exception to 
the bucks' usual selfishness; but it 
serves to show that animals are quick 
to learn and heed the intimations that 
are lost on less sensitive natures, and 
that they are more ready than men to 
recognize and follow a safe leader. 
We have an amusing mote-and-beam 
way sometimes of speaking of animals 
as creatures of habit, forgetting how 
in manners and dress, in food and 
drink, in work and play, in sleeping 
and waking, and in all things else we 
