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282 2R9 DEER AND man' RACeV ' that the young thing woiild run for its old pasture and ' would not leave it very far. Of course, they could not foretell which direction any of the animals would' take, so a code of signals was agreed upon between " the young man and his assistant, Ysopete furnishing- the brains. One signal was, that no matter how far away, if seen with their two arms raised over their heads, they would know each other, it being under- stood that just as soon as the run was discovered, they should take turn about so as to keep up a racing pace. Now the four deer are free. The one spotted by the two runners, who we are to follow, took a contrary direction to the other three and seemed to know where it was going; the others ran together and were followed by the chasers, but our two men who vdll be followed made straight after the one. Of course, the young thing went like the wind, but our brace of Indi- ans are running together, keeping their eagle eyes on the wild thing. Finally it reaches the locality of its cap- ture, but cannot find the herd; now it begins to circle, and the older Indian instructs the other to make a cut-off to meet the bounding deer: so off goes our young feUow, the other reducing his pace to a walk, but making calculations where he can nearest strike the circle. Now the animal is about to pass at least three miles away, but now is his time to run, so he begins a swinging trot until he reaches rising ground, then he falls prostrate to the ground; this means for the other to stop running, and finally observing the young man has seen the signal, then off he goes; but mind you, not directly in a line toward the now bewU-