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After three days it happened that Tristan, in following a wounded deer far out into the wood, was caught by night-fall, and took to thinking thus under the dark wood alone: It was not fear that moved the King he had my sword and I slept and had he wished to slay, why did he leave me his own blade? O, my father, my father, I know you now.
How are we to-day for the musquitoes?" It is in the solitude of this wilderness, that the jaguar, stretched out motionless and silent, upon one of the lower branches of the ancient trees, watches for its passing prey; a deer, urged by thirst, is making its way to the river, and approaches the tree where this enemy lies in wait.
Suppose one of the men who used to be hired to guard these preserves of that rich gentleman who meant to make a game park here, after the idea was given up, took a notion to come back up here for some reason. He might be getting ready to trap animals in the fall; or shoot deer out of season.
But when it started off at a leisurely and smooth trot, winding in and out and upward, he leaped joyously to the only conclusion possible. The deer was following a passable trail through the jungle and a trail which led upward. He marked the spot where he had seen it and urged his horse toward it.
So Aponitolau called his dogs and he went to hunt deer. As soon as he arrived on the mountain, "Ala, my black dog, do not catch a deer unless it is in the low grass. Ala, my dog Boko, do not catch deer unless it is in a level field." Not long after his dogs caught deer, and he took out their livers. As soon as he took out the liver he spat on the places he had cut, and the deer ran away again.
We are in the park now our own unpeopled, silent park, where none but the deer can see us; and yet he has not offered me the smallest caress; not once has he called me "Nancy;" he, to whom hitherto my homely name has appeared so sweet.
Kitty tried to reassure herself. "But she's as surefooted as a deer. We all went up the other day and Nan was by far the best climber amongst us." Almost simultaneously Peter and Barry were on their feet. "Something may have happened, all the same," said Barry with concern. "She might have sprained her ankle or or anything." He turned to the servant nearest him.
Those great instinctive migrations of wild animals which take place annually in America are not possible in England. The deer here cannot escape solitary individuals getting free of course, now and then; they cannot move in a body, and it is not easy to know whether any such desire remains among them.
Says I to Bouncer, `We'll have that deer; and off we set, making sure that we should come up to him before long. Instead of stopping to be shot, however, the baste took to its heels. To make a long story short, though we followed for many a mile, it got away afther all. Now comes the worst part of the business.
"There's something more I want to say to you." But whatever it may have been, Dickie Deer Mouse did not wait to hear it. The moment he plunged into the woods beyond the cornfield Dickie Deer Mouse began to feel better. He knew that Fatty Coon would not leave that place of plenty until he had filled himself almost to bursting with tender young corn.
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