He felt strong pity as the fallen animal looked at him with great mournful eyes, but they were two hungry boys, and they must have a food supply if they would live in the woods.
They cleaned and dressed the deer and found that the carcass was as much as they could carry.

But with great toil they lifted it over the hot ground, and then across another little prairie, until they came to woods only partially burned.

There they hung the body to the bough of a tree, out of the reach of beasts of prey.
Then they took thought for the future.

Barring the deer which would last some time they would now have to begin all over again, but they resolved to spend the rest of the present day, there under the shade of the trees.

They were too much exhausted with exertion and excitement to undertake any new risk just yet.
Paul was afflicted with a great longing for home that afternoon.