FOLLOWING 
even a glimpse of them in their 
thicket. 
I gave up caution then and there. 
1 was fresh and the deer were tired, 
— why not run them down and get 
a fair shot before the sun went down 
and left the woods too dark to see 
a rifle sight? I had heard that the 
Indians used sometimes to run a deer 
down afoot in the old days, and here 
was the chance to test their experi- 
ence. It was fearfully hard traveling 
without snowshoes, to be sure; but 
that seemed only to even-up chances 
fairly with the game. That I could 
run down the smaller deer I had no 
doubt; but, judging from past ex- 
perience, the trail that would lead 
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