tL. FOLLOWING 
'^THE DEER 
WINTER TRAILS 
told how he had broken his still watch- 
ing- and moved about the hilltop look- 
ing- out of every opening, sniffing and 
listening to the four quarters, as if he 
felt that he were followed, and ending 
at last by trotting down hill to the 
trail and putting his nose into it here 
and there to be sure it was not pol- 
luted. Then, another of his endless 
devices to make the noonday siesta 
full of contentment, he followed the 
back track a little way, stepping care- 
fully in his own footprints ; branched 
off on the other side of the trail by 
a single great bound that hid his new 
tracks in some ground spruces, and 
so circled swiftly back to join his little 
\ flock, leaving behind him a sad puzzle 
