A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the

　　edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing

　　her greater safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land

　　that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter

　　or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she

　　entertained no anticipation1 of danger. Some boatmen sailing by

　　saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.

　　Yielding up her last breath, she gasped2 forth3 this lament: "O

　　wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the

　　land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come

　　for safety, so much more perilous4."