FOLLOWING 
THE DEEfl^ 
live together, and the gray must al- 
ways go. Jays stopped spying on 
the squirrels — to see and remember 
where their winter stores were hidden, "^^^^^^^^"^'^^ 
and later to steal them — and lingered 
near me, whistling their curiosity at 
the silent man below. None but 
jays gave any heed to the five grim 
corpses swinging by their necks over 
the deadly hedge, and to them it was 
only a new sensation. 
Then a cruel thing happened, one 
of the many tragedies that pass un- 
noticed in the woods. There was a 
scurry in the underbrush, and strange 
cries like those of an agonized child, 
only tiny and distant, as if heard in 
a phonograph. Over the sounds a 
