you are old enough to know him better and to
love him.

But sometimes the deadly animal is too strong to be killed himself.
There is the tiger. He can kill and eat many kinds of animals. But who
can kill _him_? No animal! At least, the elephant and the buffalo
could kill the tiger if the tiger should let them _catch_ him and
trample on him. But the tiger does not let any animal catch him. Then
how can the other animals be saved from the tiger?

God made two special animals to save the others from the tiger. The
first is the buffalo, of which I have already told you, and which is
the Knight of the Jungle. The second animal is the barking deer. How
the barking deer saves the other animals from the tiger, I shall now
tell you:

When the tiger is prowling about, all other kinds of deer and antelope
just run away, and are glad enough if they escape being eaten. But
not the plucky little barking deer! He too runs away, but as soon as
he gets a little ahead of the tiger, he stops under a bush and lets
out that bark or yap--then runs on at once to another bush.

The tiger is furious, and jumps on the bush where he heard the
bark--but the deer is not there now! The deer barks from that second
bush--and runs to another one. In this way the barking deer leads the
tiger on and on through the jungle from bush to bush.

And why does he bark like that? To tell the other animals in good time
that the tiger is coming, and then to tell them exactly _where_ the
tiger is.

"Look out, here's a tiger!" That is the meaning of his first bark.

"Here he is! He is coming after me--this way!" That is what he means
by the next bark.

"He is chasing me this way! You run the other way!" And that is what
the barking deer keeps on saying, as he runs from bush to bush, so
that all the other animals know exactly where the tiger is at each
minute.

In this way the barking deer runs through the jungle, _warning all the
other animals_, and so spoiling the tiger's dinner all the way.

CHAPTER X

Deer and Antelope: Their Special Gifts

You have learned by this time that _every animal has some special
gift_, that is, he can do one thing better than most other animals.
The deer and the antelope have their special gifts.

First, there is their gift of _hearing_. I have already told you that
the wild buffaloes can hear a long way; but the deer and the antelope
can hear still farther.

Let us suppose that a tiger is trying to creep up t