. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . gray squirrels, in vast numbers, were holdingtheir revel upon the walnut and chesnuttrees, occasionally chasing each other, likebirds, among the branches; and now andthen a deer bounded before us, gazed back-ward for a moment, and then, with his tail DEER. 105 and antlered head erect, plunged into thewood. When evening approached we foundwe had proceeded full five and twenty were then in the midst of woods, andfinding a partial shelter under a rock,. Matthew made a fire, and we prepared topass the night th
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . gray squirrels, in vast numbers, were holdingtheir revel upon the walnut and chesnuttrees, occasionally chasing each other, likebirds, among the branches; and now andthen a deer bounded before us, gazed back-ward for a moment, and then, with his tail DEER. 105 and antlered head erect, plunged into thewood. When evening approached we foundwe had proceeded full five and twenty were then in the midst of woods, andfinding a partial shelter under a rock,. Matthew made a fire, and we prepared topass the night there. I cannot easily make those of my readers,who have always lived in cities or towns,understand the pleasure of sleeping in the 106 WIT BOUGHT. woods, with no roof but the sky. Perhapsmost persons would think this a hardship,and so it would be if we had to do it always :but by way of adventure now and then, par-ticularly when one is about seventeen, withsuch a clever fellow as Mat for a companionand guide, the thing is quite delightful. I assisted Mat in collecting some faggots forour fire—but every moment kept lookingaround, expecting to see some wild animalshowing his face between the trunks of thegray old oaks. I mistook a stump for a bearshead ; then I thought a bush at a little dis-tance was some huge monster, crouching asif to spring upon us. The night stole on apace, and soon we weresurrounded with darkness, which was ren-dered deeper by the fire we had scene was a wild one: the trees thatstood around, had
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