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ravine and look for the doe, and as there was 

 a good deal of snow in the bottom and under 

 the trees, we knew we could soon tell if she 

 were wounded. After a little search we 

 found her track, and walking along it a few 



rds, came upon some drops and then a 

 splash of blood. There being no need to 

 hurry, we first dressed the dead buck a fine, 

 fat fellow, but with small misshapen horns, 

 and then took up the trail of the wounded 

 doe. Here, however, I again committed an 

 error, and paid too much heed to the trail 

 and too little to the country round about; 

 and while following it with my eyes down 

 on the ground in a place where it was faint, 

 the doe got up some distance ahead and to 

 one side of me, and bounded off round a 

 corner of the ravine. The bed where she had 

 lain was not very bloody, but from the fact of 

 her having stopped so soon, I was sure she 



s badly wounded. However, after she got 

 out of the snow the ground was as hard as 

 flint, and it was impossible to track her; 

 the valley soon took a turn, and branched 



