The Normal Record. January- February 1906

              THE   NORMAL   RECORD
was because there were more logs  and brush.    To the chapparel was
added manzanita.
His mother led him up a gentle slope and onto a buttress that
jutted out like a spur from the side of the ridge. When they reached
the edge it seemed as though the meadow was directly beneath.
From this promontory the view was grand. As he gazed it seemed to
him as though he was not standing on solid ground, but was floating
in the air. Beneath stretched the meadow, green, except where the
water lay on it in glistening ponds, or where the silvery creeks
wound through it. Looking east it seemed almost a mile to where
the forest started and instead of a ridge rising almost straight up
as on this side, it sloped gently away from the meadow until it rose
against the sky line on a ridge as high as the one on which he was
standing. From this distance the forest looked like a solid green
floor, broken here and there by an old white snag that still stood.
On the north, the forest-clad ridge that he was on and the one on
the other side met, or were joined about three miles away by a small
mountain covered with trees clear to the top. Toward the south the
forest started nearer and Long Horns could see where the creek
flowed out of the forest in three streams and then divided and spread
over the meadow. This forest sloped back in five or six waves, wjiich
were in reality ridges. Then it rose higher and straighter until it
finally straggled out and ended. Where the forest ended was a dark
belt and then the snow-capped top of a grand old mountain.
All that day Long Horns' mother led him through the woods,
showing him different things. He saw the chipmunks, quail and
squirrels. He examined ant hills and rats' nests and got used to having the lizards dart around in the leaves. They traveled in a southerly direction, and mostly in faint trails. That evening they reached
the creek and slept in a thicket of small trees. The next morning
they crossed the creek and while his mother grazed he looked, smelled
and heard. That day they met a doe and her fawn and after that it
was no uncommon thing for them to be with a band of several deer.
As the does watched and grazed they wandered always up stream.
As they got higher day by day Long Horns noticed that the timber
changed. The pines became fewer and the oaks disappeared, while
the firs grew thicker. To the manzanita and chapparel were added
snowbrush and buckbrush, so fragrant that when it is in bloom the
woods are full of its scent.
Later the nights commenced to get cooler. Long Horns and the
other fawns' coats grew much thicker and their white spots began to
fade. The does were all fat now and the fawns were strong and the
deer grew restless and went on long trips. It was during this time
that Long Horns' mother taught him to jump, run and hide. She
warned him of dangers, especially of creatures called men.
Then came a time when the leaves fell at the least stir, and the
squirrels made a great fuss as they worked along, gathering nuts for
the winter. Now the blood ran quick and Long Horns felt as if nothing were too great for him to do. Then one night the great trees
began to whisper and the night was a little colder. The next morning there seemed to be deer everywhere, and the two started north in
company with many other deer in the direction the creeks flowed.
He learned that they were all bound for a great river and canyon
where they stayed all winter, for there the snow didn't fall so deep
and spring came earlier. There would be many deer from the north
whom they would meet in this sheltered retreat.
One night there was a strange odor in the winds and he was told
that it was smoke caused by the burning of the woods. The next
morning as they were hurrying along, for they wanted to cross and
get out of the burnt district before night, a confused noise was heard
which gradually grew louder. Before long he saw the animals that
made this noise. They were white and left a disagreeable odor along
the ground and  bushes  wherever they  went.    His  mother told him