Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . showed above the intervening ground was spotted with straggling hinds,and we might lay where we were till to-morrow morningwithout a chance of getting near any of the good deer. 11. While we deliberated, MacLellan thought that, bycrawling with extreme caution up a wet hollow to the left,we might have a chance to approach the stags whose hornswe had seen behind the other knoll, and, as nothing bettercould be done, we decided upon this attempt. The sunwas going down from the old towers o
Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . showed above the intervening ground was spotted with straggling hinds,and we might lay where we were till to-morrow morningwithout a chance of getting near any of the good deer. 11. While we deliberated, MacLellan thought that, bycrawling with extreme caution up a wet hollow to the left,we might have a chance to approach the stags whose hornswe had seen behind the other knoll, and, as nothing bettercould be done, we decided upon this attempt. The sunwas going down from the old towers of Auchandun, andwe had no more time than would give light for this ven-ture. We slid away toward the hollow, and, drawing our-selves inch by inch through the heather and tall, thin grass,had reached the middle of the level between the hillocks, OUR FOUR-FOOTED NEIGHBORS. 349 when we heard a stamp and a short grant close beside had scarce time to turn my head and catch a glimpse ofa base little gray hind, who, in crossing the hollow, hadstumbled upon us. It was but a moment ; a rapid wheel. The Stag. and rash through the long grass, and I heard the career ofa hundred feet going through the hollow. I sprang onmy knee, and scare a dozen small stags and hinds whichcame upon us at full speed ; for those behind, not knowing 350 NATURAL HISTORY READER. from whence came the alarm, made straight for the herd gathering in all directions, charging,flying, reuniting, dispersing, and reassembling in utterdisorder, like a rout of cavalry. 12. I made a run for the middle knoll ; two stags withpretty good heads met me right in the face. I did notstop to look at them, but rushed up the brae. What asight was seen from its top ! Upward of six hundred deerwere charging past, before, behind, around, in all stately figure which I sought, the mighty black hart,was slowly ascending an eminence about three hundredyards off, from whence he reconnoitered the ground be
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