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over the deep water, and reaching after the buck, the 

 ice gave way, and into the water I went, up to my hips. 



Irritated at such bad luck, I pitched at him, when he 

 bounded for the shore, whither I pursued him ; and as he 

 made a leap to rise the bank, I caught him by one hind 

 leg, and then we had it ; but, as he struggled up the bank, 

 I drew his leg round a tree, and there held him until he 

 tired himself, and laid still. I then tied him, and went to 

 the woods, where I procured a pole, tied his hind legs to 

 one end of it, and his fore legs to the other end, and then 

 passed another cord around his kidneys and the pole, to 

 keep him from straining his back. Then I took the end 

 of the pole, and drew him to the big road, where I loosed 

 him. In a little time he became quiet, when I turned him 

 into the road, and drove him before me like a sheep, until 

 he came in sight of the house ; but, as he refused to pro- 

 ceed any farther, I had to throw him and tie him again, 

 and draw him home, where I kept my deer five or six 

 years. 



