H FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
as if conscious of their evil doing 
and anxious to avoid detection. But 
the third, a large collie — a dog that, 
when he does go wrong, becomes 
the most cunning and vicious of 
brutes — flew straight at my throat 
with a snarl like a gray wolf cheated 
of his killing. I have faced bear and 
panther and bull moose when the red 
danger-light blazed into their eyes ; 
but never before or since have I seen 
such awful fury in a brute's face. 
It swept over me in an instant that 
it was his life or mine ; there was 
no question or alternative. A lucky 
cut of the club disabled him, and 1 
