H FOLLOWING 
TH£ DEER 
else rush straightaway at the sudden 
alarm and be caught on the bluff 
beyond, where the river would hold 
them as in a pen. 
Was it simple instinct, 1 wonder, 
or did the buck that had grown old 
in hunter's wiles feel what was pass- 
ing in my mind, and like a flash take 
the chance that would save, not only 
his own life, but the lives of the two 
that followed him ? At the first alarm 
HUNTING 
