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As she could not bring them all up without
the aid of a nurse, she requested her husband,
who was exceedingly fond of hunting, to catch
her some very young fawns. This he soon
found means of doing, as the forest in which
they lived was extensive and well stocked with
deer. Corsine, having acquired the fawns, tied
them up to windward, and the Hinds smelling

them, came to suckle them. Corsine then hid
the fawns and put the infants in their place,
who thrived admirably on the milk of the
hinds. Four of them came twice a day to
Corsine's dwelling, in search of the Princes
and Princess, whom they took for fawns.

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