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Spot's Captivity
Spot the deer tells how he was captured a second time, having suffered captivity once before
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Long ago, when I was six months old, I used to gambol in front of all the rest, as a youngster does. Out of sheer spirits I would run far ahead, then wait for the herd. Now we deer have two gaits, called the Jump-Up and the Straightaway. Of these I knew the Straightaway, but not the Jump-Up.
While amusing myself one day, I lost touch with the herd. At this I was dreadfully worried, gazed
“Thus, though having suffered a previous cap- tivity, I am caught again through constraining des- tiny.”