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CHAPTER XII A DEER YARD
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"Would you fellows like to visit a deer yard?" Pat asked at breakfast the next morning when the subject of the day's program had been brought up.
"Would we!" Upton fairly shouted it. "Say, Pat, do you mean that there is a really, truly sure enough deer yard anywhere near here? I've read about 'em, and I'd give all my old shoes to see one."
"Right O, my fine bucko! You shall see one, and it won't cost you so much as a shoestring," replied Pat. "It's not over a mile from camp, and on the ridge2 just above it is one of those deadfalls for bear that Alec built last fall. We'll take that in and kill two birds with one stone if you say so. There are some marten traps on that same ridge that I want to have a look at. What do you say, Alec?"
"Verra good," replied Alec. "You show the laddies the yard and look over that line, and I'll take the short line east. We'll get back here by noon and this afternoon we can show them some other sets."
To this plan the others agreed with enthusiasm and preparations for an immediate3 start were begun. "Shall we take rifles?" asked Hal eagerly.
"For what?" demanded Pat. "We be going to visit a deer yard, and 'twould be tempting4 fate and flying in the face of Providence5 to let such a bloodthirsty young gintleman in among the poor cratures with a gun in his hands."
"We might run across that silver fox."
"And we might jump over the moon. The one is as likely as the other," retorted Pat.
So the guns were left at the cabin. Pat led the way straight to the ridge on which Spud Ely had missed his first chance to get a buck1 in the fall, but instead of climbing the ridge worked along the foot of it, skirting a swamp. They followed the edge of this for some distance and then
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buck
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| n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃 | |
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tempting
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providence
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lamely
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abrupt
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thickets
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thicket
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hemlock
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hemlocks
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| 由毒芹提取的毒药( hemlock的名词复数 ) | |
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maze
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browsing
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twigs
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moss
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plentiful
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herd
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lumber
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jacks
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| n.抓子游戏;千斤顶( jack的名词复数 );(电)插孔;[电子学]插座;放弃 | |
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calf
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brute
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leeward
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rim
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quarry
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possessed
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proceeding
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folly
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impatience
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fleeting
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pointed
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subconscious
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scout
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trample
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margin
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meshes
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| 网孔( mesh的名词复数 ); 网状物; 陷阱; 困境 | |
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salvation
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adversary
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inexplicable
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plunged
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dangling
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scrambled
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perch
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frantic
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tormentor
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whooping
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