H FOLLOWING 
THE DEER 
Snow 
always. His nostrils spread, his head 
came up with a start when I flung 
the first cur aside to leeward ; but he 
made no motion, only his eyes had 
a wonderful light in them, when I 
dragged his last enemy, the one he 
had killed himself, from under his 
very head and threw it after the 
others. Then I sat down in the snow, 
and we were face to face at last. 
He feared me — I could hardly ex- 
pect otherwise, while a deer has mem- 
ory — but he lay perfectly still, his 
head extended on the snow, his sides 
heaving. After a little while he made 
a few bounds forward, at right angles 
to the course he had been running, 
with marvelous instinct remembering 
