H FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
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' >' .... - 
Si^ow Round 
as before down the ridge. In the 
swift glimpses they gave me I no- 
ticed with satisfaction that, though 
7//^^^^"'''' thin and a bit ragged in appearance, 
^0'-' they were by no means starved. The 
^ veteran leader had provided well for 
his little family. 
More curious to know what had 
driven them than to study them just 
now, I followed their back tracks up 
the ridge for perhaps half a mile, 
when another trail made me turn 
aside. Two days before, a single 
deer had been driven out of the yard 
at a point where three paths met. 
She had been running down the ridge 
when something in front met her and 
drove her headlong out of her course. 
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