The Ocean's Menace by Archibald Rutledge

Author:Archibald Rutledge
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

He was about to communicate his opinion to his hound, that had now trailed far ahead, when that optimistic creature suddenly changed his half-whining following note to one of great excitement; he opened full cry, and Sidney heard a tremendous bound in the bay-thicket ahead. He rushed forward, broke through the tangle, and came abruptly on a strange scene. For, forty yards away, in a green cup-like hollow of the swamp, the great buck that he had pursued was struggling as if with a mortal wound. The hunter marked the towering antlers in velvet, saw the heave of the flanks, glimpsed the pleading light of the wide soft eyes. He threw up his gun; but on second thought he lowered it, laid it on the ground, and ran toward the deer, drawing his hunting-knife as he ran. He was so excited and so filled with delight with the prospect of gaining the coveted prize that he paid no attention to his footing, nor to the strange growths about his ankles, nor indeed to the odd situation of the deer. His first intimation of danger was sudden: the earth under his feet gave sickeningly, engulfingly. He was now within a few feet of the buck that he saw was laboring, not with a wound, but in the fell clutches of quicksands. The hunter’s right hand, still gripping the open knife, was on the deer’s haunches when the bottom of the sinister pit seemed to sink beneath him, and he clutched the animal and clung to him. With that touch Sidney felt a change in their relations. They were no longer pursuer and pursued, but equally in danger, and equally apparently doomed.

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