¨¨,=††¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤††=,¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††††¤¤# #¤¤††††=,¨
¨¨¨,,,†¤## ##¤†,,,¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# {roe} deer #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤#### #¨¨¨¨# ####¤††=,¨
¨¨¨¨,=†¤¤¤ ¤¤¤†=,¨¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### [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.] #¤¤¤†=¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨=†¤ ¤†=¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨¨,,=††¤# #¤††=,,¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### 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). ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨,,=†¤¤¤# #¨¨¨# #¤¤¤†=,,¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨=†¤# #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# #¤†=¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨,,==†¤¤¤ ¤¤¤†==,,¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### 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. #¤†††††=,¨
¨¨,,,,†††¤ ¤†††,,,,¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨¨¨,†††¤¤ #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# ¤¤†††,¨¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### #¨¨¨# ###¤¤††=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨¨,==†¤¤# [picture of a deer head. from the far #¤¤†==,¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### side, looking the other way. its ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨,,,,††¤# antlers are bloodied.] #¤††,,,,¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨=†¤## ##¤†=¨¨¨¨¨
¨,=†¤¤#### ####¤¤†=,¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨
¨¨¨¨,==†¤¤ ¤¤†==,¨¨¨¨
¨,=††¤¤### ###¤¤††=,¨