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"His life had arrived at this: save several deer in the teeth of puppies. He was a small man delivered to execute a small task."Howard Elman is just a man whose inner scenery is really as his yard as disordered, where indigenous New Hampshire birches mix with a bullet-riddled machine, forgotten toilet fittings, and many rubbish vehicles. Howard, anti hero of the first book in Ernest Hebertis highly-acclaimed Darby sequence, is just a combination also. Howardis fight against change represents the course clash between native Stone Staters scratching out a full time income and citified immigrants with "large bank accounts and university levels." Such as the winter-damaged deer endangered from the puppies of March -- the usually docile home animals whose instincts excite them to kill and pursue for activity -- Howard, also, is sorely beset.