tly they had not seen him. Though marvellously quick to catch scent

feed," thought he. "If not frightened, they will

e to creep near, and get a shot at t

rrying to silence Lion, he saw a stra

the bushes into the

I'm trying to get a shot at; if you

rying a coat on his arm-looked at him saucily, with his h

hy shouldn't

ck, "if you were hunting, and I should be pas

went into the other cheek, while the head went over on the other side, as if to balance it.

still feeding; the old one lifting her head occasionally as if on th

nge youth kindled; then h

or them fellers! You never c

country off south, and I think you can get around the range that way, and come out beyond the deer, before they see you. There's everything in our favor. The wind blows

strange youth said jeeringly, with o

nd inquired, somewhat irrelevantly, whether Jack saw anything green there. "Not by this light!" he answered his own question, as he let

ng that there was no catch about it. "Only h

nce morning; wore myself down lean as a rail; felt for the last two hours as though there was nothing but my backbone between me

end of his day's work, he could carry home a good fat doe, and perhaps a fawn, of h

don't want a share of the game,

and balance it; then replied in a manner which

t him. Does

. Hu

e wagon could be left concealed, and had already taken him ou

ng a nag at a stable. "And give me that blanket out of the buggy. I

outh then spread his coat over the blanket, laid his right hand on it, and his left on bridle and mane, and

e been on hors

in his dark eyes which belied his words. And now J

that highest hill before you turn; and then come qui

ore to-day!" And, clapping heels to the h

w him come out of the undergrowth, strike across t

THE STRAN

breathless anxiety to see his horseman emerge from among the hills beyond. Several minutes elapsed; then, though no horseman appeared, the old

re hidden from view in a hollow. The stratagem had

fawn appeared on the summit of a low hill, and stopped. The doe came up and stopped too, with elevated nostrils, snuffing. Fo

th must be confessed-shook so that he could not keep his piece steady for an instant. Cool fell

e recovering from their first alarm, they gave the young hunter time

with occasional pauses, toward the woods; follow

aster's heels. He knew instinctively that there

t have felt a touch of pity at sight of those two slender, beautiful creatures, so full of life, making for their covert in the cool woods. But the hunt

, within twenty paces of the levelled gun. There it stood, its pretty spotted side turned toward him, so fair a mark, and so charming a picture, that for a moment, excited though he was, he could no

ket. The fawn heard, and started to run away. The provocation was too great for o

shouted Jack; and

revent a tearing of the hide and flesh. Then he set up a wild yell, which might have be

eside its dam. There lay the two pret

is right to hunt game, it is right to kil

d him say, in relating the adventure, that he could never afterwards think

et the seat forward in order to make room f

have gone?" he muttered

n, gazing over the prairie. The sun was almost set, and all the h

t moving. It was no deer this time, but a horse and ride

ry faded from it, and he felt the lonesome night shutting down over the l

re he was, five miles from home, with the darkening forest on one side, and the vast prairie on the other; the dead doe a