FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
with the owl rather than with some 
other ground-prowler that might come 
• • . u • 1 . u r r I ^ WINTER TRAII 
nosmg mto his hole betore the light ^ 
snow had time to fill it up effectually 
behind him. 
Next morning 1 was early afield, 
heading for a ridge where 1 thought 
the deer of the neighborhood might 
congregate with the intention of yard- 
ing for the winter. At the foot of a 
wild little natural meadow, made cen- 
turies ago by the beavers, I found the 
trail of two deer which had been help- 
ing themselves to some hay that had 
been cut and stacked there the pre- 
vious summer. My big buck was not 
with them ; so I left the trail in peace 
to push through a belt of woods and 
