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...WHITE DEER-James Thurber-Harcourt, Brace...
...none of them could tell King Clode what to do about the white deer he had trapped in the forest, and which had suddenly changed into a beautiful princess. And when they saw the way the princess nibbled lettuce, they could not promise the King that she wouldn't change back any minute...
Summer had faded into the season which Western Indians called The-Moon-When -Deer -Rub -Their -Horns; September's hot days and moonless nights held the first, smoky promise of fall. Across the continent the people of the U.S. looked at a land at peace after the years...
...casual look of a yellow fly line falling out on running water and the first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across the car's radiator, the sight of ducks in mist or pheasant starting like an explosion of color from brown grass, the distant belling of a Bluetick hound...
...They had made a start in the beaver trade, not trapping but buying skins from the Indians. Dissension in the colony itself had measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter of malnutrition...