Antlers 
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woods. In the dark shadows little 
could he know of his antagonist. Nor 
did he wait, but charged with lowered 
head. The stranger met him fairly, 
but his weight was far too small to 
meet and shock this half a ton of 
thundering fury. Down to his knees 
he dropped, his head with all its 
armored prongs was pushed aside and 
all his flank lay there exposed. 
One savage snort, a cruel tearing 
slash, and in his vitals plunged the 
ripping tines. With sigh of last de- 
parting breath he fell and died, and 
the triumphant King gathered his 
little herd of cows and drove them 
south. Each night he added to his 
growing herd the mates of some de- 
feated adversary, and drove them on, 
until, as victor in full twenty fights, 
he claimed allegiance to his slightest 
wish, from much the largest herd in 
all the land. 
But on a night when the full harvest 
moon bathed all the woods in floods of 
silver light and the soft wind swept 
sighing through the grass, there came 
a mighty challenge from the west. It 
rose from bellowing roar to trumpet 
tones, higher and shriller and higher 
until it broke in a wild screaming 
whistle, ending in unintelligible mut- 
terings that were lost in crashing 
limbs and sound of antles tearing 
past the trees. 
That was a challenge worthy of a 
King; and as a mighty King he an- 
swered back, with call that made the 
forest ring again. But nothing daunt- 
ed, up the stranger came, brushed 
aside the youngsters in his way and 
charged upon the mighty King him- 
self. The herd scurried away to a safe 
distance, while the two waged bit- 
ter warfare, to and fro across the 
trampled ground. 
Their antlers clashed, and back the 
King was pressed. Their sharp hooves 
tore the sod. No other bull that ever 
roamed the woods had made him such 
a match as this. Those driving charges 
came like bolts unloosed; their shock 
was terrible. The King went to his 
knees, but rose again, and with eyes 
like coals of living fire he bore his 
adversary back again, and both stood 
still to gain their breath and ease their 
straining lungs. 
Again they clashed without advan- 
tage and backed away. From thirty 
feet apart they charged again with 
raging snort and straining breath, and 
all the force of speed and strength and 
weight. Their antlers crashed; there 
was a sound as if a cable slipped; a 
deadly pause. the antlers locked to- 
gether; and then they fought as 
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