84 THE ADIRONDACK. 



nevertheless flashed on this hunter's thoughts, that 

 he might be so crippled that he could not stir for days 

 and weeks, but starve to death there in the woods. 

 " I may need that venison before I get out," said he ; 

 and so, with a mangled bleeding limb, he pursued 

 and killed a deer, on which he might feed in the 

 last extremity. 



