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THE STORY OF THE DEER . 
country is diversified with rocky ridges, dotted here and there with scattered 
pines or junipers. Its favorite resorts are the coulees, gulches, and canons 
which so often break up the high table-lands of the central plateau of the con¬ 
tinent; but it is as often to be found among the green valleys high up on the 
mountain-sides, or, in summer, among the low trees that grow just below the 
snow-line. It is to such localities as the last-named that the bucks resort during 
the summer when they are growing their antlers, and when their thin coat of 
hair affords them little or no protection against the flies. 
FAWN OF THE VIRGINIAN DEER. 
Instead of running in the even manner of the Virginian deer, mule-deer 
progress by a series of bounds, all their feet leaving the ground at once. For 
a short distance their pace is rapid, but it soon slackens. As in the case of the 
Virginian deer, the number of fawns produced at a birth is nearly always two. 
The mule-dear is the favorite “game” of the Rocky Mountain hunter, 
and although game laws have been passed for their protection they are 
rapidly becoming less in number every year. 
