Those Big Brown Eyes
It was a cool September evening. The trees were turning gold, and the light was growing dim as the sun began to set. I was getting ready to put my arrows and my bow back into my case and call it a night when suddenly, I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye. There were three deer, two does and a year-old fawn, walking out on the meadow about fifty yards upwind from where I was sitting. While grazing, they began slowly to walk toward me, when I dropped an arrow and their heads popped up.
The two does must have seen me, because they bounded into the woods. The fawn, however, exercising either stupidity or curiosity, started to walk directly at me. Her tail was twitching back and forth almost like a dog's, and her head was bobbing up and down while checking the air current for scents. She knew that something was hidden in the bushes along the fence line, but she couldn't tell what it was.
My heart was pounding faster and louder by the second.......
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