3^ FOLLOWING 
'^THE DEER 
good that time; else he would long 
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/ ''^'//f'//'^). /. , shoes and cut their throats, as if they 
At the southern end of a great 
hardwood ridge 1 found the first 
path of their yard. It was half filled 
with snow, unused since the last 
two storms. A glance on either 
side, where everything eatable within 
reach of a deer's neck had long ago 
been cropped close, showed plainly 
why the path was abandoned. I fol- 
lowed it a short distance before run- 
ning into another path, and another, 
then into a great tangle of deer 
ways spreading out crisscross over 
were indeed his " tarnal sheep" that 
had run wild in the woods. 
