FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
The woods were all still after that ; 
jays and squirrels seemed appalled at 
the tragedy, and avoided me as if I 
were responsible for the still little ^^^^'^^^''"'^^ 
body under the hemlock tips. An 
hour passed ; then, a quarter-mile 
away, in the direction that the deer 
had taken in the early morning, a 
single jay set up his cry, the cry of 
something new passing in the woods. 
Two or three others joined him ; the 
cry came nearer. A flock of cross- 
bills went whistling overhead, com- 
ing from the same direction. Then, 
as I slipped away into an evergreen 
thicket, a partridge came whirring up 
and darted by me like a brown arrow 
driven by the bending branches be- 
