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\=,....... #...# {roe} deer #...# .......,=\
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#@#@=\=,.. ..,=\=@#@#
##@#@=\=,. [picture of a deer head, in a garland .,=\=@#@##
#@#@=\=,.. woven of various grasses. ..,=\=@#@#
@#@=\=,... the deer has a crown of rowan, and is ...,=\=@#@
#@=\=,.... looking at the viewer.] ....,=\=@#
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.......... in the north, the deer is often used as ..........
,......... a symbol for the forest's agency, or .........,
=,........ its self-knowledge. watching eyes. ........,=
\=,....... .......,=\
=\=,...... warmer regions instead ascribe it the ......,=\=
@=\=,..... knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or .....,=\=@
#@=\=,.... obsession (unblinking eyes, always ....,=\=@#
@#@=\=,... awake, scrapie-like behavior). ...,=\=@#@
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@=\=,..... the deer is a cross between a horse and .....,=\=@
=\=,...... a dog. it bears a resemblance to a ......,=\=
\=,....... young salix tree, and has a .......,=\
=,........ sweet-smelling nose, like honey. ........,=
,......... .........,
.......... the horns of a deer is called antlers. ..........
,......... they have a complex fractal shape, and .........,
=,........ are believed to enable the deer to ........,=
\=,....... "fold" through passages which should be .......,=\
=\=,...... too narrow for them. antlers from dead ......,=\=
@=\=,..... deer seem to lose this power. .....,=\=@
#@=\=,.... ....,=\=@#
@#@=\=,... a deer's heart has two chambers, where ...,=\=@#@
#@#@=\=,.. it stores all the secrets it might see ..,=\=@#@#
##@#@=\=,. during the course of it's life. with .,=\=@#@##
#@#@=\=,.. age the secrets will harden into a ..,=\=@#@#
@#@=\=,... caramellized structure, which will ...,=\=@#@
#@=\=,.... eventually block the flow of blood, and ....,=\=@#
@=\=,..... kill the deer. .....,=\=@
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,......... [picture of a deer head. from the far .........,
=,........ side, looking the other way. its ........,=
\=,....... antlers are bloodied.] .......,=\
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