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Updated: May 4, 2025
"This youngster oughtn't to do much tramping for a few days, Cyrus. That deer-road did up his feet pretty badly. I'll be travelling in your direction myself the day after to-morrow. I want to visit a farm-settlement within a dozen miles of the lake, where the farmer has a sickly child, the only treasure in his log shanty. The mite frets if Doc doesn't come to see her once in a while.
"Why, boy!" exclaimed Cyrus, with a strong shudder, when Dol had described the false trail which led him to the foot of the crag, "that wasn't a human trail at all. It was a deer-road. The deer spend their day up in the mountains, and come down to the ponds at evening to feed and drink. Now, a buck or doe in its regular journeys to and fro will follow one line, to which it becomes accustomed.
Such a carnival of fun and noise was started through their combined efforts in the old log camp, that its owner declared he "couldn't hear himself think." Seizing his horn, he blew a blast which called for order. "Say, my boy, let me have a look at your feet," he said, cornering Dol. "A deer-road isn't a king's highway, as I dare say you've found out to your cost.
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