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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: When his eye has lit upon the object of his search, he will approach
quite close. The fawn will keep perfectly still, glued[13] as it were
to earth, and with loud bleats suffer itself to be picked up; unless
it happen to be drenched with rain; in which case, it will not stay
quiet in one place. No doubt, the internal moisture of the animal
congeals quickly with the cold[14] and causes it to shift its ground.
Caught in that case it must needs be; but the hounds will have work
enough to run the creature down.[15] The huntsman having seized the
fawn, will hand it to the keeper. The bleating will continue; and the
hind, partly seeing and partly hearing, will bear down full tilt upon
the man who has got her young, in her desire to rescue it. Now is the
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