Rod and gun . trong Pole. 514 ROD AND GUX IX CANADA drinking place came also long^ oraunt look-ing timber wolves, animals harmless toman but each hungering for a meal ofdainty young deer flesh. How that anxious mother ever coaxedthe lagging steps of the new-born to aplace of greater security; how she evershieWed it, deserted as she was by hermate—in fact she had first wilfully de-serted him, for the males of all speciesare apt to trample and kill their youngif they seem to take away or detain thefemale; how by slow, watchful, crossing must mother and son have darted of? withswift bounds throug
Rod and gun . trong Pole. 514 ROD AND GUX IX CANADA drinking place came also long^ oraunt look-ing timber wolves, animals harmless toman but each hungering for a meal ofdainty young deer flesh. How that anxious mother ever coaxedthe lagging steps of the new-born to aplace of greater security; how she evershieWed it, deserted as she was by hermate—in fact she had first wilfully de-serted him, for the males of all speciesare apt to trample and kill their youngif they seem to take away or detain thefemale; how by slow, watchful, crossing must mother and son have darted of? withswift bounds through the dark forestwhen some crackling noise told of acreeping danger. May passed with the now agile fawnin its full spotted coat. June saw itbig-eyed and full-eared, showing its specsclearer still. In July they began to August the rabbit-grey coat was com-ing fast. In September a reddish hazewas appearing through this. Now theyoung chap could bound along as fast ashis mother. I know Fritz and I in our. Down in t.:e Bow Fritz Squitted and Nursed the Fifty Pounds oi Dctfi All the Way Across the Inlet. of a little brook she washed out her trail;how by lingering in grassy glades in themidst of the drowned lands she hid theweak-kneed fawn, we may guess at; buthow she ever kept it from the hungryjaws of the beasts that prowl by night ismore than we can even conjecture. We have often found these sleepingplaces. In every case there was a fairlyclear outlook on each side. How oftenas the youngster increased in strength Natural History work have often triedto capture these three and four monthsold pets. They would come, like a liv-ing football, bounding along the trail asfast as a greyhound travels, and it wasmore than our lives were worth to tryand stop them. September days, while the fawn walking along beside its yetwatchful mother, brought an even worseenemy than slinking panther or cruel A YOUNG NATURALIST AND HIS PETS 515 wolf or prowling; bear—the big two leg-
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