FOLLOWING 
THE DEER%, 
deer depend for food, grew mostly 
on the other sides of the ridge. That 
the chase should turn this way, out 
of the yard's limits, showed the dogs' 
cunning, and that they were not new 
at their evil business. They had di- 
vided their forces again, as they had 
undoubtedly done when hunting the 
poor doe whose body 1 had just 
found. Part of the pack hunted 
down the ridge in full cry, while the 
rest lay in wait to spring at the fly- 
ing game as it came on and drive 
it out of the paths into the deep 
snow, where it would 
speedily be at 
