FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
a trace on the bare even whiteness. 
One mig^ht have passed alone the road 
, ^. ^ . , WINTER TRAI 
a score ot times without noticing that ^ 
game had crossed. There was no 
doubt now that these were deer that 
had been often hunted, and that had 
learned their cunning from long ex- J* 
perience. 
I followed them rapidly till they 
began feeding in a little valley, then 
with much caution, stealing from tree 
to thicket, giving scant attention to 
the trail but searching keenly the 
woods ahead; for the last signs 
showed that I was now but a few 
minutes behind the deer, and I re- 
membered what an old hunter had 
told me, that a man may track a 
