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The Phantom Deer
This is the story of a man, a boy and a Key deer - one of those miniature deer now fast disappearing from the Floriday Keys.
Hickey had lived alone always, except for the wild creatures that seemed a part of Big Pine Key. When he learned that his young nephew was coming to visit, he was uneasy and worried. There were too many people coming to the Keys as it was. They were spoiling island after island - hunting, fishing, hacking down trees. Jack, the boy, was equally apprehensive about the visit until he discovered and made friends with the Key fawn that Hickey was raising by hand.
This friendship and the struggle of the fawn and the other Key deer to live in spite of encroaching civilization make an engrossing story, filled with exciting pursuits and stirring pictures of animal courage in the beautiful tropical setting.
Hickey had lived alone always, except for the wild creatures that seemed a part of Big Pine Key. When he learned that his young nephew was coming to visit, he was uneasy and worried. There were too many people coming to the Keys as it was. They were spoiling island after island - hunting, fishing, hacking down trees. Jack, the boy, was equally apprehensive about the visit until he discovered and made friends with the Key fawn that Hickey was raising by hand.
This friendship and the struggle of the fawn and the other Key deer to live in spite of encroaching civilization make an engrossing story, filled with exciting pursuits and stirring pictures of animal courage in the beautiful tropical setting.
192 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1954
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