his natural inaptitude for all sorts of backwoods

life, he managed to scramble through everything

with safety, often with success, and sometimes with

credit.

To see Henri stalk a deer was worth a long day's

journey. Joe Blunt used to say he was "all jints

together, from the top of his head to the sole of his

moccasin." He threw his immense form into the most

inconceivable contortions, and slowly wound his way,

sometimes on hands and knees, sometimes flat, through