Four friends went deer hunting. When they got to the woods they split up, with two going in one direction and two in another. After a fruitless day, not having seen hide nor hair of a deer, one pair returned to the camp.

They were grousing about their luck or the absence of it when they heard a loud thrashing around in the nearby forest. Suddenly, one of the other pair of hunters came staggering out of the trees. He was laboring under the w…