1^ FOLLOWING 
'^TH£ DEER 
the doe gives place to the better 
leadership of experience. This is in- 
£PoKiAroBAcii, OJv creasingly true, not only near the 
Tme Tjiail, settlements where deer are most fa- 
""^^ miliar with man and his devices, but 
also deep in the once silent wilderness 
that of late has learned to rouse its 
warning echoes and jump all its shy 
dwellers out of their coverts at the 
voice of "villainous saltpeter." 
Last summer, in the deer country 
at the headwaters of the Penobscot, 
there were two big bucks with splen- 
did heads that never, spite of all my 
watching, gave me more than a 
glimpse of tossing antlers or the flash 
of a white tail over the windfalls. 
Other deer would come boldly to 
