This scene comes in the 15th chapter, called “I Find Out What to Do with Hunters.”
Sam Gribley is a one-time city kid who has run away to live on his own in the Catskill Mountains. During deer hunting season in the fall, Sam attempts to hide from the random hunters that suddenly show up in the woods. But he soon learns that even if they shoot deer, they don’t always find the dead bodies. Sometimes the hunters don’t even look for them too diligently. Winter is coming, and Sam needs to make himself some deerskin leather clothing. He could also use the meat, the venison. So by watching where the wounded deer go, before they finally die – and at least once, by distracting the searching hunter by using the falcon Frightful as a diversion – Sam is able to land three dead deer. He can make clothes and store meat for the winter.
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