PERILS OF THE HUNTERS. 99

 

obliged to cut off four or five of them.
One of the sailors, in following a deer,
did not see where he was going, and
tumbled down a steep bank of snow.
When people are very cold, as you may
have heard, they become drowsy, and
can hardly help going to sleep. It was
so with this man, after his fall down
the snow-bank. He had no wish, al-
most no power to move; and he would,
no doubt, have frozen to death there, if
some one had not happened to find
him, just in season to save his life.
When he was discovered, his fingers
were frozen stiff, as they were holding