. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . me, who, having been brought up in thecity, had but little acquaintance with thesearts. But although Bill was thus clever, he wasso restless and enterprising, as always to bein some scrape or other. One day, he had THE FOX-TRAP. 11 seen the burrow of a woodchuck, which is akind of American marmot, in a field behindthe house of Mrs. St. John. So he took alarge fox-trap, and sunk it to the level of theground, in the very path where the wood-chuck was accustomed to go. He thensprinkled it over with earth, so as to mak
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . me, who, having been brought up in thecity, had but little acquaintance with thesearts. But although Bill was thus clever, he wasso restless and enterprising, as always to bein some scrape or other. One day, he had THE FOX-TRAP. 11 seen the burrow of a woodchuck, which is akind of American marmot, in a field behindthe house of Mrs. St. John. So he took alarge fox-trap, and sunk it to the level of theground, in the very path where the wood-chuck was accustomed to go. He thensprinkled it over with earth, so as to make itappear as if no trap were there. Next morn-. ing, pretty early, Bill went to see his trap,expecting of course to find that he hadcaught the woodchuck. But what was hisdismay, on approaching the place, to findMrs. St. John herself, screaming with allher might, and throwing up her hands indespair! Bill went near enough to see thatshe had one foot fast in the trap. He then 12 WIT BOUGHT. turned about, and left the poor school-mis-tress to be extricated by her neighbours. Forthis Bill got a sound flogging from my uncle,but he felt well compensated by being re-leased from school for a month ; for, duringthat period, the poor woman was too lame toresume her duties. Bills next exploit was equally serious. Ifthere was anything on earth that he lovedbetter than another, it was gunpowder. Why he had sucha fancy for it, Icannot tell, unlessbecause it was anoisy, tearing, dan-gerous thing, likehimself. But bethis as it may, he spent more than half the littlemoney he could get in buying it. Everyday he was firing off some old pistol-barrel,r
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