. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . 236 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. pasture bars. A glance at a timid deer shows thatall his faculties are on the alert: the head is erect,the broad ears are turned in the direction of danger,the eyes intently peer at a single leaf that wagglesin a passing zephyr, the nostrils are distended and inmotion, ^ and an uneasy fore foot is poisedfor a run. When the animal isat last satisfied that. Running Deer (from a photograph). his safety is threatened, the spindlelike legs areraised, there are a few graceful boun
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . 236 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. pasture bars. A glance at a timid deer shows thatall his faculties are on the alert: the head is erect,the broad ears are turned in the direction of danger,the eyes intently peer at a single leaf that wagglesin a passing zephyr, the nostrils are distended and inmotion, ^ and an uneasy fore foot is poisedfor a run. When the animal isat last satisfied that. Running Deer (from a photograph). his safety is threatened, the spindlelike legs areraised, there are a few graceful bounds rather thansteps over the intervening ferns and lichen-coveredstones, and the creature is gone. But in a swift runhe covers the ground like an india-rubber ball, touch-ing it only at every sixteen feet maybe. The beautiful antlers of the deer are shed and re-newed each year—the so-called spike horn, or ant-lers without any branches, belong to an animal about A FLEET-FOOTED NEIGHBOR IN THE WOODS. 237 a year old. The two-branched horn belongs to adeer three years old, and so on. Very rarely indeeda female will develop a spike horn covered with vel-vet. This velvety covering of the antlers when they
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