Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 677
tiZoological Garden, and that I am writing thisstory to accompany them. Let us take the great elk. Conqueror, as a typ-ical specimen of the deer family, and follow thegrowth of his enormous antlers from the first of 458 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Mar., the year to the following fall.… … THE GREAT ELK, CONQUEROR. a lifetime. But in April, Conqueror began to getrestless, began to rub his head against tree-trunksand to bang his antlers against the fence. Ap-parently they were itching severely. Finally, onemorning, one of the antlers snapped off short atthe junction with the skull,…
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