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Rolf's First Deer.
Anxious to lose no fine day they had worked steadily on the shanty, not even going after the deer that were seen occasionally over the lake, so that now they were out of fresh meat, and Rolf saw a chance he long had looked for.

"Quonab, I want to go out alone and get a deer, and I want your gun.
"Ugh! you shall go.

To-night is good." "To-night" meant evening, so Rolf set out alone as soon as the sun was low, for during the heat of the day the deer are commonly lying in some thicket.

In general, he knew enough to travel up wind, and to go as silently as possible.