oe or two to
keep them company. There was no likelihood that we should capture a
pair of does as we had just done the bucks--since the does or this
species of deer are without the great antlers. How then should we get
hold of one? That was what puzzled us, and set all our wits to work.

"As we sat around the log-fire in the evenings we talked the matter over
and over again. We might shoot one that had the fawns following at her
heels; and we knew we could then easily take them--as these affectionate
little creatures always remain by their mother, even after she has
fallen by the bullet of the hunter's rifle. But this was a cruel
expedient; and mamma, who of course overheard us planning the thing, at
once entered her protest against it. So, too, did Frank, for he was of
a very gentle nature; and, as you might say, could not endure to see a
fly killed, except when strict necessity required it. Yet, withal, this
same Frank, and mamma, who were entomologists, as well as ornithologists
and botanists, had killed many a fly--as might be seen by looking at a
large frame hung against the wall, where all sorts of flies, and moths,
and great bright butterflies, were impaled upon the sharp thorns of the
locust. I am afraid that neither mamma nor Frank could have defended
the point very gracefully with so contradictory an argument hanging
against the wall. Harry and I, however, did not contemplate the
adoption of this plan--as we knew that the fawns would be a long time in
growing up, and we wanted an old doe or two at once.

"`Can we not trap them?' asked Harry. `Why not take them in a trap, as
Frank did the turkeys?'

"`I am afraid you would not easily get deer into such a trap as that
where the turkeys were caught.'

"`But, papa,' continued Harry, `I have read of other kinds of traps.
One I remember well. It is made by building a large enclosure just like
our park, only leaving a gap; and then having two fences that run out
from this gap far into the woods, and opening like the legs of a pair of
compasses. The deer are driven between these two fences, and into the
gap, when the hunters follow and close them in. I think that looks very
easy to be done. How if we try it?'

"`It would not do at all. In the first place, it would take us several
weeks to split rails enough to make the fences sufficiently long; and,
secondly, we should require men, and dogs, and horses more than we have,
to run the deer in the right