FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
thicket was silent as the winter woods 
behind me. 
uTu • . • .1 1 WINTER 
They are just niside those scrub 
firs/' I thought, ''pawing the snow to 
get their courage up to come and see." 
So the handkerchief danced on. One, 
two, five minutes passed in silence; 
then something for which 1 cannot 
account, but which I have often 
strongly felt in the woods when wild 
animals whose presence I did not sus- 
pect were watching me, made me turn 
around. It was as if some one were 
calling me to come quickly. And there 
in plain sight behind me, just this side 
the fringe of evergreen that lined the 
old road, stood my three deer in a row 
like three beautiful statues, their ears 
