ware that she had seen me when I passed by on her
trail where she had gone down the hill, and thinking that she would
go to the creek below where Mr. Dingman was and told him the game the
doe was playing. He said that she would come to water at the point
just below the camp, and that he would go down there and watch, while
I should follow the track through. I told Mr. Dingman that I was
afraid that we were too late, and that the doe had already gone out,
that she had made her bed so that she could watch her trail where she
went down the hill, and had slipped out after I had gone down the
hill on her trail.

Mr. Dingman thought that he could get the runway before she would get
through, even if she had gone out when I came through on her trail
down the hill. In hopes that the deer had not taken the trail and lit
out when I came through the hill, I worked my way cautiously back up
the hill, only occasionally going in sight of the trail so as to keep
her course, but as I feared, when I was about halfway up the hill, I
found her bed, but the doe was gone. I took the trail and followed it
up the hill until she struck the trail of the deer that she was with
when I first started them, and instead of going down the ridge, she
took the back trail of the other deer. I followed it back until near
where I had wounded her, when she again broke down the hill and
crossed the creek near where I first found their trail, and had gone
back onto the same ridge that she had come from.

Now the only thing for me to do was to leave the trail and go after
Mr. Dingman again. When I found him and we got back to camp, it was
about noon, so we got a warm dinner before continuing the chase. When
we got up to where I had left the trail, we held council and made our
plans for the next move, and decided that as the old lady was
continually doing the unexpected, we would follow her track, one
going on each side of the trail a few yards from it.

We had only gone a short distance up the hill when we found the old
lady's bed, where she had laid down, so that she could watch back on
her trail, where she had come down on the opposite hillside. We did
not go far when the trail turned to the left and went up the side of
the ridge toward the head of the creek. We continued along the trail
one on either side and soon we came to where a large hemlock tree had
fallen parallel with the side of the hill. Mr. Dingman was on the
upper side and above the fallen tre