THE DEERi%, 
to running keenly the moment the 
last flakes were down and the storm- 
truce ended. 
A suspicious-looking clump of ever- 
greens, where something had brushed 
the snow rudely from the feathery 
tips, stopped me as I hurried down 
the old road. Under the evergreens 
was a hole in the snow, and at the 
bottom of the hole hard inverted cups 
made by deer's feet. I followed on to 
another hole in the snow, and then 
to another and another, some twelve 
or fifteen feet apart, leading in swift 
bounds to some big timber. There 
the curious track separated into three 
deer trails, one of which might well 
be that of a ten-point buck. Here 
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WINTER TRAILS 
