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Show ' Part Two VOL 1L Pages 9 to NO. OGDEN 1 CITY. UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 1, 16 1905. derness world of Ringwaak. with hs long shapes flash by, he aro-- tad els t ions aud MtisfsciltniB and breath- - .. a.t uu-i- i hoik through tht less adventure and thrilling escapes. covert, moving softly as a shadow That autumn he grow pugnacious, and till he felt hlm-M-l-f out of earshot. Thru more one than gut thrashing from full he dashed away ai top speed, determingrown bucks wliom he was o fool- ed to put a safe distance between him- -, and these diauoncemng adversarhardy as to offend. Bui his defeats were the bliest kind of instruction, aud lie ies. was growiug both in strength and statHe kept on now till his heart was ure beyond the ordinary custom of his near bursting, and when at last bs kind, and by the time another winter made hia strategic loop and lay dosra and another summer had gone over to rest and wairh hs felt that bs mmt him he was ready to wipe out all past have secured ample Uine to recover. humiliaiiuUk. When he slopped to driuk But not so. Before hs liad half got his at the glassy pool which lies in a gran- wind, and while his flauks were yet ite pocket half way up the western heaving painfully, thou meagre Iwt slope of Kliigwaak he ssw a rnflectiun terrible cries again drew near. Tins of the must redoubtable buck on all time, perforce, he let the punsters run the range, and when the oilier bucks liy and saw that they seemed as fresh resiionded lo his challenge they oue as ever. Then he sprang up and reafter another met deteat. That winter, sumed the Right, shaken by the first when he his yard and trod chill of real terror that he had known out his range of paths among the birch since that forgotten day la the thicket and poplar thickets, he had three does w hen the bare and the fisher jumped uud two lawns under his leadership. u I mu him. His flisht now led past the hack Iota During the noxt two years Its became famous throughout thn settle- ef Uamay's farm, where the cattle were ments. Everyone had heard of the past urlng. Either because his sudden tear made him seek companionship, or log buck w ho was so bold about show Ing hiuiMlf when no ono wss ready with au idea of confusing his scent with tor It i Ik, but So crafty in eluding the and ran, here and there among hunieis. lie was seen from lime to that of tiie cattle, be leaped Into the tira. In the pastures with the rattle, the mildly stmderiug cows. Then ha hut never when there was a gun with- i leaved the feme again at tiis furthest in reach. On many a field of earing coiner, plumped into the thick under-bru- b. and headed toward the fields grain he stumped (he broad defiance ut his ravages, ml tor miles about every with which lie had been wont to make buck woods sport snum began to droara so far. He had no more than vanished is the leafage, than his pursuers apof winning those noble antlers. The last farm of thn settlement to- peared at. the other side of the pasture, at once among tlm cows, ward the northwest, where the road 'They ran in heed whatever to angry leads off over wooded dips and rises paying no to the valley of the turbulent Otia euorts and levelled horns, unravelled tiie trail with perfect ease, dashed over iirouls, belonged to an old bachelor and darted into tbs form named Ramsey. This farm the the fence again underbrush with a new note of triumph red buck soeiv-- to have selected for in their yelpings. his .special aud disliuguished attenWhen the buck heard their voices so tion. lie loved Ramsay's bean fields close bchlud him liis knees almost hi'. u his corn putrh. lie loved his gavs away. He knew he could not rim long, sea green turnip rows. He loved much furiln-r- , aud he knew his shifts even the little garden before the hit c- were all vaiu against suck implacable hi! window, where be easily learned to foes as these. He half psuiwd. with a line ciihbapvjs and cucumbers and tried brave impulse to stand at bay. But vainly to acquire a taste for onions atone oher impulse, undefined, but and peppergrass. Thu visits to the potent, urged him on toward Rammy'a guribu were Invariably paid when farm. It waa familiar grouud, and be lti'u.xay was away at the cross roads had never suffered any hurt (bena lie More or during the dark hours id knew that the old farmer was roost those particular nights when Ramsay iangeroiis," blit he w as not an instant, slept soundest. The gaunt old farm- inevitable menace like this which was er vowed vengeance, and kept his rinse utNin Ills heula. Moreover, he had Img barrelled duck gun loaded with aeen- tiie oil tie go up to the barnyard buckshot, and wauled many duys lying and- take refuge there and come away Jn wait for thn marauder or following la safety. With the last of his ebbing slrenglh his trail through Ihe tumbled, sweet smelling autumn woods of Ringwaak. he burnt forth into the open, ran serosa At Inst, however, though hia desire for the enrufielil, passed the corner of tbe vongeanc.'t hail by no means slackened, garden, brushed against the ind of the the grim old farmer woodsman began well sweep and psuae,! Iiefore the open to take a certain pride in his adver- door of tbe stable. The heavy door waa "NTNi " .CATO rarelesaly propiied open with a stick. In sary's prowess, along with a certain con The youngster. In iqany-wayIran with tlm glare of the sunshine knew. I t Mime dim way. tlut this was quivering with aiipruhotmtim. equipped to west of Ring weak Iny a linn of scattertest those daring jealous apprehension I the hater sir looked black and a fairy liul't landed tke care of himtelf . Unoted by the (all ed sottic.-iipjtoutside, him.; ntxi and aiiri'-rto upland lonely tome fall a deadly danger licl confio'.r should trophy, plump uMiu hid flank, to bounce off farms. Along the edge of Ihe forest, oilier gun than his. When the buck safe. Bill all about, tliougu mixed la rn were open fields, where tha men hail would perpetrate some particularly au- with Hie smell of tbe csltle, was tha a. i in wnh a scqu.l of terror. bounded ' "1 , v uncontrollable panic the fawn rants aud grains which the doer found dacious depredation on the corn or dreaded smell of man. He wheetwd aside, Intending to go around tlm stable Ip bis feet; a ad stood trembling, while ve:y go d lo eat. iilten the little red ikbbagos Ramsay's Drat hunt ol dimlyresume his hopeieos sod Bight, Imt buck and hia mother would break into wrulh would bo succeeded by somea largo bare, cicngauJ to a straight, ' as he did se the yelp of his pursuers me of these fields and feast riot mud y iine In tho d.v?r.:tiim of Ilia flight, io akin reapcctful appreciation. broke louder upon hia ears. He saw hrtvon the succulent crops. But at the first thing hut crabbing through the screen of He would pull his scraggy and gria-glc- d them bras k from the wdods and dart branches and disappeared. Aa the gliinpap. -- melt or sound of nmn, or of chin with bis fingers con- into the cornfield. Tina decided him. lie the noisy digs who served man and templatively, and guarded fawn shrank away from this incompreof under- wheeled again, half staggering struck twinkle a dwelt with him, they would lie off like hensible apparition -- which, as far as anre- standing humor would supplant tbe blunderingly against the slick which remotest their to swift instant shadows at return lie knew, might any In his shrewd, blue, woods-wis-e ger propjied tiie door open, stumbled across lot a knew old due snarlThe wise treats. and thump him again a thin, the dam- tbe threshold, ran to the Innermost ns lie stood surveying eyes came however it aud made about man; so, ing. peculiarly malignant cry Such aa autsgunist was worth depths of tlm si able and fell gasping about, the little red buck had a hit of age. and him turn hia head, and as he did so Ramsay rcglsiered a vow into a box still which Ram nay had while, -subusd ill in format ion uniii the anie d beaut, the hare a small, hide should keep him once built for a colt. At tbe same mofine that that some ject. At ihe same time, through puraurer, sprang uKin him furiously warm In winter, those illuatrtous snt-lcr- a ment the heavy dour, no ' longer he mother's his of aide inexulh caprice first the and bore him down. For adorn no other walla but hia propped back, swung to with n slam, acquired a dangerous habit that was in time he experienced the pang of phywere rainy others who the big wooden latch rising smoothly there llut Ids with no louaiaient prudent way sical anguish, as fierce teeth, small, had a had similar views as to tbe destiny and dropping securely into place. man. The old When tbe dogs arrived and found the but, sharp, tore at the tender hide of of the groat Riugawaak buck, whose would and for whimsical rows, liking sea-so- u his peck, feet ling the way lo h!s aluit against them they broke into door fourth hie of the one of fame her In'o opening by load ,wn clamor. Once around the buildthroat. Hs lay. helplessly kicking, unlimlTs I the far angry to had row k beyond Inn lot spread ihe remoter pastures ran to - if there was any In der this onslaught, and bleated piteLate ing they the of perneither Rlugwuaa feed among the. rattle. She ranee. Then they clawed mother. enl setother his new for of a autumn ously couple mitted nor offerod nuy familiarities the fourth I At that same raiment, ami just in alien beasts, tler on the lower river decided to savagely st the door, larking and these to whatever heavy, time, the mother arrived. Her eyes, reason sne liked to he make a trip up to Ringwaak aud try growling in their balked fury. Their some for lint uoiee brought Kara Hay on the run from usually an gentle, were aflame wltn among them. The little red buck, there- their luck. They had heard of the big potato field, ever 'the rise, when ha rage. Before the fisher for such the fore. although he knew the rattle were bucks craft In foiling the trailers, of the waa working. He wae surprised to see associated with man and esred for by hia alcana Inspired sagacity in avoid- two strange dogs miking sucks aims nk him. got into the way of visiting the ing ambuscade. But they were prebuck, whom he eved with vague disBat lie never ,.f!n1'ed or "mu, el an hia stable disir. Being n canny new card an feeding aiJ entirely favor, he still hung about hia mother, cow pastures occasionally lar-d pared lo play to anxious eir. lie he.rd'r however, instead of going imeturing with her usually, and always on the sweet, close cropped grasses, against lilm. They brought with them straight to the door lie went srond bebreathe. It v.r.s almost, as if a hand of first the two splendid dagsh of waxed ttcotch hind the stsble and looked in tbs winsleeping near her In tbe thickets. But fortunately, he learned from ice had cl;.' ere J him. ar. 1 held trim liis first summer had supplied him with that milking time was a time when the deerhound blood, dow. and coolie still, b.yoiul ev-- .r the possibility of a the mast important elemenis of that pastures were to be avoided. nut only fierce but intelliwere who ihe full minute a tremor. For perhaps When Ramsay saw tbs shivering, ' Yet another lesson the little buck knowledge which a red deers life In huge-lynhalf crumbstood lit-ic- , form and great sntkm on the gent, nut only tireless but swift. tswny and he when one fall that learned day the wilderness of the North demand. fo epcs When these two lung legged, long floor or Ihe stall bis heart swelled ing, with one big, pa.ld.-near road the were his mother crossing The courses of the varied knowledge Jawed, Iron gray dogs were loosed with exultslion. The coveted trophies upheld, piercing the gloom v.lth hia shich the wild creature must carry in the settlement. Two of the village dogs upon his trail the big buck chanced to were his. lie ran Into the uitcbea s' are. He wild d:;rera nothor nose keen neither iheir brains In oidcr to survive in the i mongrels very be watching them from the heart of a for bis gun. Then he changed bin ing, however, except space of reddidi-brow- n lemiier-cau- glit -'ruggle would seem lo be threefold, nor very resolute of thicket on a knoll less than one bun mind and picked up. Instead, ls long shadjw, seated with ilic slim, chase wltn The first, aud most importa.it.. source' night of them, and gave dred perpeduiruler tmnVs r.f saplings, and yards away. At lua.il, as the bunting knife. When ha approached woods ih doubtless inherited instinct, which noisy cry. Away through the crow spattered tb.'c'.ly with spat of infilier-ir.- g fiics, it whs about that distance, the st aide donr the dogs turned upon ,H,U, fawn together, supplies the ron-laquantity, so In vent doeatand E'jniight. Bat the fawn, thought in but by the windilngsol the trail It fully him threateningly. But the crisp voice tlulr soon kfl that, ' a puce or common the to1 lightly; speak, knowledge full view, was perf.cty concealed was with equanimity, there- of authority with which be ordered all the Individuals of a specks. Tbe! pursuers far behind. For these pui a nine, it for he ha 1 that gift of fornseJ which. buck gazed down upon them aside was something they were that tbe fore. no had great. Old doe suers the appears to be experience, which Si the oti r3Tr.?T!c reign. makes Its Sullenly, would these two strange arrivals, till ho per quite too rlever to defy. nlie Indeed, a at pinch. teaches varying hue, according to var- respect was bis with red eyes of wrath, they obeyed, possessor invisible. No wandering puff It tbal with tlielr actions them smt reived by faced them fought iation in circumstances and feu rroun c- have of wind came by to tell the lynv's nose riir did not own trail they were following. Then waiting for their masters to arrive and ling. In the amount of such knowledge her namble fore hoofs, and that his eyes were playing him false. ftiwn a sperg of anger cauu Into bis great supisirt them. the unnecessarily. which they poste-- a the Individual of a want to tire At last the" uplifted forepaw came aoft-)- v Ramsay closed the door carefully of the dugs grew liquid eyes, and he stamped bis sharp the When Will yelping be found differ to pedes widely. to Ihe ground and he crept off like wheeled hoofs, as if be would like to wait and behind him and strode to the box stall, she distance in the faint But. instinct after and experience have a' terrible gray shadow. For two w of perhaps fifty give battle. He waa only half In earn- knife in hand. On Its threshold he accounted for anything tlisi. ran reas- around s half eirclc three croud- the fawn's sides moved bark a linlr way, est about it. however, for, after all, paused ami scrutinised the captive .s ran in feet diameter, onably be credited to them, there readmiration. Sure, violently. Then lie was once more as her big as th--fawn the with and down lav were, these were only with triumphant mains a considerable and well authentistill aa a stone. the trophies of bide and horns, time Hb the trail. they elude. By the lo were watch to and easy dogs cated residuum of instances where wild was meat there to do .It chnneej i list on this particular d the dogs dogs, amused himself with three or four there all winter enough restores have displayed - a knowl - were both thoroughly but occasion the mother Joe was long away. daring Utile assailant was could do perhaps, tough, bin Ihe to nnce ground. hl, jJ1C first in ope direction, BWii-t- , hern tatted The fawn rut very hungry, as well as more than turn hia narrow, snarling edge whh.-- nd t her instinct nor expehad st. the mighty leaps, it that were tlu-seelug well a soon As then In another, to give liis pursuer on bis choicest crops, lie looked at lonely, which . -- trained his pr lienee face to sec what threatened, and while rience could well furnish them with. In two fugitives jumped up and msde otr something to puzzle over. Tlu-- lie the animal's heaving sides and realdiree-tioto theutmo-t- . Nevertheless, he rein blood was rjc.li cases observation and Inference of sweet trickle another first ihe went bounding lighiiy away along tbe again et foil speed mained obedient to the law which jet hoof rams (em to agree in ascribing (he knowla knife-edgein his After one repetition nf this skirts of the mountains, northwest ized what a magnificent run he must to edge shielded him. while the forest, which down throat, parental teaching. have made. Then as he stepped forup manoeuvre the dogs gave upon his back, smashing the the more familiar and ward with his knife he wondrred what Among the lessons learned that sum- familiar In seems so empty, but. is in reality so The little red buck ward, toward He squlriucd aside and made mer the spine. When game favored section of bis range. flee le by the little red buck one of the poplUiuz, sent its furtive kindreds past oue futile effort to drag himself away. learned a handy trick, but he hail be came to a brook lie would run a could have Induced the beastwaato his hiding piace. From time to time a A second later he was pounded and most vital was how to keep out of thn had The buck gazing -- ame a such to lake refuge. dogs time, the at learned, little way up or down the channel be tip at him with wide eyes, reassured way of hear. AH tjie forest s( about dainty, bead -- eyed wondmiue -- curried trampled fnio a shapeless mass. .. Hill abounded in I wars; for too lightly. fore resuming liis flight. And at last, by the man's quiet. There was no Kingwaik wltn doe fawn and bj; or a brooding partridge, unwilling the hia winter small and That fangs the slope of Ringwaak were rich in being sides were beginning tefror In that gaze, but only a sort of velvet his when to be long absent from her eggs, ran notTbe taken manner in a were doe. were very long, .the fawn's wounds btiteherriea, and bears and blueberries another to heave from so much exercise, he hither and thither to peck her hasty question; and be never not serious, lie picked himself up and go together when the wishes of llie in charge bv the tail. wide, antlered msde bis accustomed loop in the trail, anxious the labored breath to mesl; or a red aquirrel. with fluffy tall crowded wiien snow though get flinched, the began close against hia mothers bears are at all considered. But t be sea- -t buck, who for lowslt satisfied well hit noatriis afloat, would dart sw fitly and silently where and down, came lay through a quicker sunny slope him n of blueberries is snort, and before deep, selected to go ly. over the ground, .lar.li up a tree, and flank. Teuderly the doe licked when IntersiKT-e- d man approached his esd. the were pursuers the thick spruce of and he groves over as nursed; then, tbe blueberries are reaey there are few from the top chatter shrill defiance to There was only one thing that made As Rsmsav met that anxious, queswith clumps of young poplar and slim l?ss had stopped trembling, tilings more delicious to bears taste the perils which bad lain wait for him his led his little herd, and him a little nervous as ho waited In tioning look,' the eager triumph In his he Hither Mrcli. to another hiding than a fawn or a moose calf.. The bear, below. All these things the fawns she led him away established his winter quarters, the covert overlooking bis buck tracks. own eves died sway, and his however. Is not a very pertinacious here he out wide eyes observed, unconsciously lay-in- g place. s paths from grove to grove These dogs were so silent, compared month softened toThe This experience so jarred the little trailer, nor does lie excel in running treading the foundations for that wiadom of smile. bright blade in thicket to thicket, eo that with the curs he was usBd to. An from and nerves or week lie that a t for snimala in is When success which at hia distances it into his belt, long the woods upon top speed. to furtively hand to sltpiied his snow enough four from occasional just yelp, the sharp lay when even r buck to merciless game of life would depend. more hia mother could not leave him young moose or deer he la wanting, his five feet, be want more where know didn't If herd he as masters could they the let their deep alone, but hail to snatch such pastur- way is to lie hidden behind some bush Once a large re-- fox, but approvingly, to liad made. muttering noise one it. Then, the they from feeding place were, was all picaed trotted ouletlv across one end of the age as she could get near hia hiding stump or bowlder till the vic- about, freely of all this fixed They Yeve fooled 'em. ain't ye."' hestood strictly to businrs. The in tactics of tim comes by, then dart out a huge paw another. The memory thicket, within ten feet of the fkwua place. His confidence in the to a little shallow tub that In the reeesxea of the not. bear did expect buck anything up Itself -nose; and once more that . inward Invisibility had bran in hakrn (bat and settle the matter at one stroke. little buck's brain, to serve him in good of (Item for soma time, but he had a corner of the stall and the whenever his mother tried to leave Such might well have been the fale of heart d"k- spasm which rutint. fear contracted But hardly been lying In his covert more to the well to get the him he would jump tin and run after the little red buck that summer but stead in later winters. stablc door bchmd the closed depths of the little watchers eyes. staccato when As those he minutes five than and snow vanished When at last (he with gun fhln under that he learned to look with wary eye the fox was snuffling with his narrow, her. The patient old de got came faintly to his ears. He wss hi mi wo perspiring men cwnflcld. these crindltlnns: hut hi-- the time her on every ambush that miht hide a the hlllidde brooks ran full and loud, yelps ftwn inquisitive snmit at the places where so the had the entered How yard startled. Jhaby the d;'P cool coors aud the iart ridge lien had scratched, and little one had recovered hir nerves he ljoar. To all these perilous places he and spring with her full were eagerly posnession of swiftly solved tbe complexities of his and was strong enough la follow her to her gave wide berth, sometimes avoiding fnwh scents waa in -he never saw the fawn. one. politely. said no of Good the had day." He apprehension doM h With nil Its advantages, however. i favored feeding grounds, and there- them altogether and sometimes circling The old doe stolenotoff by herself one day trail? bud which ir mu noticing, and the stirs cunning with which those dogs after a bigdown lie ns. this Invisibility hsd certatn doforis of after her problems grew dally less dif- iihotit at safe distances till he could get when he was he for was lonely and spent could cut across curves and pick up the have run Its own. About five minutes after the ficult. Tiie scunner pasiej with com- the wind of them and find out whether For a few days trail anew. Still le-- s did he realize their hidden la your barn." much of bis time looking for his mothwith fox had gone there came a swishing of paratively little ev nt. uud by autumn, they held a menoce or no. Rama, y eyed the visitors disof appalling speed. When next tb:lr his mother began to develop and Another important truth toiue in up- er. Then, being J branches, a pounding of aoft feet, a when were antagonism ears his dlsguishr-struck voices they upon -r on him that first summer was that man, position and very large and .vigorous nnswl. mysterious sound of haste and terror, oib- instincts, and occasionally, in the that for an Instant his heart his scraggy chin Iiefore he"I've and well endowed with the so ot " -drawled. at. the back of the thicket where the campanionslup of a tall, wide amered the most to be dieaded of ail -crexnire. for his age he fail But. Ysas" did not liis still. stood craft old dare liiKk. seem :i to forget him altogether, j was. notwithstanding, caps hi;- of being joy of lite, he forgot his loss and in there-t- he buck fine fawn could not sec. He did not see the Without him. Jean, mighty waiting to -I most useful lu the deer lawple To the t pleasantly absorbed in the wil to lift his head and look, but waited, La waa a very sturdy, I u pa-tu- re rGirT own itmnii'.b lliu leaf. tangle the xunBlnua toll ia tin in irregular rptmebos, fled-iohe a a - rud'.lyv hrowu floor ut a thicket on thi southward r.loni ol Ringwaak. la the very heart or the thicket, curled cUiao and with Its soft fin muzzle resting fiat on its opgaUicr-ehind legs, lay a young The ground, covered with a Jeep, elastic carpet of dead spruce and hemlock smiles, was much the same color saddle little animals coat. The latter,, however, was diversified with spot of a lighter hue, whlcn matched marvellously, Indeed, that only an eye that was Initiated, as well as disrrimtn-ajhtconst tell the pstudici of ahine Iran ike patches of color or d!riin-gdlfthe outlines of the fawns figure against the binding background. There d f-- & h At . y - s dark-furre- m-timea back-woodm- an, x ' nt -- uMl -- y . ws neither sound nor movement in the thicket. A tiny green inh-- y cl low worm, whh-had let itself down from a hranrh on a yard or more of delicate filamnt, hung motionless and crinkled, seeming to have forgotten the purpose of If decent. Not a breath of wind disturbed the clear, balsamy fragrance of the shadowed air, and the fawn appeared to sleep, though Its liquid eyes were wide open. During the brief absence of its mild eyed mother the little animal was accustomed to maintaining this voiceless and unwavering stillness, which, combined with Its coloring, made lw most effective concealment. Enemies, hungry and savage, were all about, it, searching coverts am pursuing trails. But the eyes of the hunting beasts seem lo be lew keen than we are wont to imagine them certainly less keen than the eyes of skilled woodsmen and an unwinking stillness may deceive the craftiest of them. Whether because its mother had taught it to be thus motionless, or because It was corrvd by Instinct Inherited from ten thousand camions ancestors, the fawn obeyed so absolutely that even Its long, sennit ivrt cars were not permitted to twitih. Ins great eyes kept starting out in vague apprehension at the wide, shadowy, unknown world. Suddenly into the limpid deeps of the little watcher's eyes rani" a flash of fear, like a sharp contraction in the hack of the pupils. A stealthy-foote' moon-faepcame Boundlessly to the edge of the thicket d, br-ea-t d. anil glan-- in stvarehingiy. The fawn ro-te- ! n n. d st. fl.-hr-r fnt al no-tie- . 1 aM-nd- gn-ete- . aelf-relio- nt k-e be-la- self-relian- |