She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.
Having done which, put the crumbs of bread into a slow oven, and let them bake until they be of a light fawn colour.
Owners of game preserves who hold a game propagating certificate may sell and transport deer or fawn alive for propagating purposes only, after securing the written consent of the president of the board of game commissioners.
Young does usually breed when about 17 months old and have but one fawn the first time; afterwards they commonly produce twins.
Usually they produce a single fawn at two years of age; afterwards twins, and in rare cases triplets.
And this much, at least, of the Grecian work I have learned, that it will never lick vulgar shoes, nor fawn to beastly eyes.
I have seen one lope down a mountain side, through about six inches of snow, carrying a fawn by the nape of the neck in its jaws, and swinging the body clear.
At the moment, however, I paid no heed to Muley, for a cracking in the brush told me the game was close, and in another moment I caught the shadowy outlines of the doe and the fawn as they scudded through the timber.
It was soon seen that the fawn was directing its course across a bay, toward the nearest borders of the forest.
In another instant, before the spectators had thought of the danger, and before its friends could secure it, the fawn was leaping wildly through the street, and the hound in full chase.
In half a minute, the fawn had turned the first corner, dashed onward toward the lake, and thrown itself into the water.
He said that he was out hunting in the morning, and saw a fawn in the distance.
The fawntouched the land; in one leap, it had crossed the narrow piece of beach, and, in another instant, it would reach the cover of the woods.
A shout from the spectators proclaimed that the fawn had passed out of sight into the forest.
The worst was believed to be over; the fawn was leaping up the mountain-side, and its enemy restrained.
The dog, as it approached the place where the fawn lay, suddenly stopped; the little animal saw him, and darted to its feet.
I want to tell my little readers that Albert has a fawn which he calls his own and pets and caresses.
Now, if it were a white fawn that might turn into a queen before morning— FOOL.
One can free the fawn by dislocating the python's vertebrae.
That unhappy woman is as powerless as a fawn caught in the coils of a python.
It used to bleat like a young fawn, and when the hunter heard a fawn bleat in the woods he never looked for it, but hurried away in the other direction.
Working his way through the bushes at the base, he suddenly heard a fawnbleat in front.
Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened.
And among the oaks the bluebells stood in pools of azure, under the new green hazels, upon a pale fawn floor of oak-leaves.
Clear Pond was too far off for the young mother to go with her fawn for a night's pleasure.
He looked down at the fawn in a helpless sort of way.
If the little spotted fawn can think, it must seem to her a queer world in which the advent of innocence is hailed by the baying of fierce hounds and the "ping" of the rifle.
The fawn started up with an anxious bleat: the doe turned; she came back; she couldn't leave it.
The fawn evidently did not hear the hound: the little innocent would even have looked sweetly at the dog, and tried to make friends with it, if the brute had been rushing upon him.
The fawn had taken his morning meal, and now lay curled up on a bed of moss, watching contentedly, with his large, soft brown eyes, every movement of his mother.
The fawn took advantage of the situation, and began to draw his luncheon ration.
The fawn was bleating piteously, hungry and lonesome.
Whenever the fawn caught up, he was quite content to frisk about.
The great eyes followed her with an alert entreaty; and, if the mother stepped a pace or two farther away in feeding, the fawn made a half movement, as if to rise and follow her.
The hounds had struck her trail where she turned, and the fawn was safe.
The doe bounded in advance, and waited: the fawn scrambled after her, slipping and tumbling along, very groggy yet on its legs, and whining a good deal because its mother kept always moving away from it.
I could praise a hero with my pen, but I cannot fawn and flatter with my lips.
Is he better than the crowd who follow at his heels and ape his manners, use his name as a watchword, and fawn upon his favour?
Let us not glose her waste With lies and dreams; Fawnon her wanton haste, Say it but seems.
These Chinese do not fawn with servile lips; They lift up equal eyes that ask and scan.
The sound seemed to release a spring, for instantly the fawn bounded away, his white flag raised, and joined the others in the safety of the wilderness.
Suddenly the sensitive ears came forward at the crackling of a twig and the fawn half rose to his feet.
From the time a fawncomes into the world he learns to obey this signal and now, instinctively, he sprang to his feet.
The taste recalled to the mind of the fawn a long forgotten impression.
Instantly the fawn thrust out his delicate muzzle and licked the outstretched hand, finding it very palatable with its faint taste of salt.
Illustration: Instantly the fawn thrust out his delicate muzzle and licked the outstretched hand.
The Hermit then drew from his pocket a lump of sugar which thefawn eagerly devoured, nosing about for more.
As the Hermit sat on the end of the log, gently stroking the velvety ears of the fawn who nestled confidingly against him, he suddenly became aware of another figure in this little woodland scene.
The newcomer was not the mother deer, however, and the fawn shrank noiselessly back, though he continued to watch with interest.
At sound of his voice the fawn bounded away, his own flag raised, and the man had the satisfaction of seeing the doe join him and lead the way into the wilderness, their progress marked now and then by a flash of white in the green gloom.
Then the Hermit held out his hand and the fawn stopped perplexed.
Once, as the mother deer and her small companion roamed the woods together, a fawn not much older than Brown Brother ran up to them and nestled tremblingly against the doe.
The refrain of this chorus about the fawn is difficult to interpret.
And one a young fawn held, and one a wild Wolf cub, and fed them with white milk, and smiled In love, young mothers with a mother's breast And babes at home forgotten!
The fawn was still there, but seemed to be on the point of running away; why, Dave could not tell.
The bullet sped true, and, with a convulsive leap into the air, the fawn fell into the shallow brook dead.
Hector Bergerac was willing enough to go into the camp with Dave, and between them they dragged the fawn and the large deer to the spot.
Scarcely had he laid the fawn low when another gunshot rang out, and this deer also went down, kicking convulsively.
