FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
torn moss. Far below the river 
fretted and roared in a white rush of 
rapids. He had taken the jump, a 
jump that made one's nostrils spread 
and his nerves tingle as he measured 
it with his eye. Somewhere, over 
in the spruces' shadow there, he was 
hiding, watching me no doubt to see 
if I would dare follow. 
That was the last of the autumn 
woods for me ; and never did I leave 
them with a lighter heart. No man 
could measure that last splendid jump, 
or think of the brave heart and steady 
head and the mighty muscles which 
made it possible, without taking oflP 
his hat in honest pride to the game 
he had followed. Though I had 
HUNTING 
