Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 262
that they will see a hunter, and will run fromhim, a dozen times for every time that he gets afirst sight of them. Their great branching ant-lers, so large and heavy that a small boy couldhardly lift them from the ground, lie scatteredeverywhere through the grass in the park, for theyshed them… … THE AMERICAN ELK. wandered contentedly along the mountain-side,resting often under cool over-arching rocks or be-side the snow-fed brooks, the banks of which arestreaked with the crimson of the wild cyclamen ;and all day long we tried to pay visits to our shyneighbors ; but wherever we called, they…
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