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THE ROE-BUCK.
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During this part of the story several other
deer that occupied the same shed with my
buck (for I had already learned to love him)
strolled up, and stood round, opening wide
their great eyes, from which now and then I
noticed big tears of sympathy rolling down
their cheeks ; for deer seem all to have big
eyes and big hearts.
" Pray go on," I said, and added, " I suppose
you lived some time at the little girl’s house ? "
by way of encouraging him, for he was weeping
profusely, and his body quite shook with
emotion.
" If I had not been brought up in the free
forest, I might have been with her now ! But
I was first of all a wild deer, not like these
fellows you see here around me," he said,
looking rather displeasingly at the others. " They
were born in confinement, and never knew
what freedom means! But to my story.
After I was quite healed of my wound, and
had recovered my strength and loss of blood,
I found myself quite unable to continue living
in one and the same place. Day by day my
strolls with little Aggy into the forest aroused
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