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The Deerslayer: Hutter

Hutter was a hardy fighter, Hurry had the strength of ten ordinary men, and Natty Bumppo had won his name of Deerslayer because of his unerring aim with the rifle. They might have withstood a siege of weeks. But Hutter and Hurry, tempted by the bounty for scalps, determined to raid the Indian encampment, where they expected to find only squaws and children. Deerslayer refused to join this cowardly warfare. But warriors were in the tents and the raiders were captured. Deerslayer, now the sole reliance of the girls in Hutter's lake-girdled house, could not attempt their rescue.

His simple honesty and his modesty made a profound impression upon Judith, who had hitherto listened too willingly to the honeyed words of English officers. Her arts were forgotten in the presence of this naive woodsman who was blind to feminine wiles.