It was long since the game on this part of the mountain had been
disturbed. Madam Doe had in all probability never seen a man before,
therefore her behavior was not peculiar. A shock of surprise thrilled
through her graceful body as she vented that snort, when she caught
sight of the new-fangled gray animal who had intruded upon her world,
and who sat spell-bound, gazing at her with hopeless eyes, in which
gradually a light broke.
But she did not fear him,--this creature in gray. She stood stock-still,
and stared at him, so near that he could see her wink her starry eyes,
with the white rings round them. She stamped one hoof, kicked an insect
from her ear with another, snorted again, wheeled around, and at last
broke away for the thick shelter of the trees, lightly and swiftly as a
breeze which skims from one thicket to another.
Seeing his mother go for the woods, her spotted fawn, which had been
frolicking among the branches of the fallen spruce-tree, skipped from
it, passed Dol with a bound which carried him a few feet, and
disappeared like a whiff too.
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