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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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res;thev remained as he had left them. A week or more thus went by, when one morning hehad an excitement. The first snare to which he came hadbeen entered, but whatever the animal may have been ithad escaped. The second snare was undisturbed, and thenext, and so on to the last one. But here lo! our little hero found a deer, a real deer,caught and alive. Ah, how the boys heart leaped! HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV.Dick named came more familiar with its happy master,it Lightfoot. Within a few weeks two does were captured and addedto what Dick began to call his park of deer. Befoiv thewinter closed they became as tame as cosset lambs, eatingoutof Dicks hand, and thrustingtheirnosesinto his round-about pockets to discover any choice bits he might havebrou.-ht them. When spring came they showed intenseeagerness for the first greens from the woods. And later,when he plucked lily pads, and brought them fresh andwet to his pets, they almost seemed to thank him withtheir great lustrous eyes.
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MIJIITFOOT AND HIS COMPANIONS. did not wait a minute to examine it, but made all hasteto bring his father to secure the captive. Soon they re-turned in the canoe with whatever they might need totake the animal home alive, and after much struggle Dickhad the long-wished-for gratification of a deer safely shutinto the great log barn. His father showed him by thehorns that the creature was two years old, and assuredhim that by careful management it would become tameduring the winter. The nearest neighbor was hired to assist him, and in afew days they had constructed a high stockade back ofthe barn, inclosing nearly an acre of ground, in the far-ther corner of which was a never-failing spring surround-ed by a dense little grove. The stockade was built by dig-ging a narrow ditch some two feet deep, and setting up end-wise in it and close together straight poles about twelvefeet long, and then filling in the earth at the bottom andtramping it down hard. The barn formed one side ofthe stocka

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