. Daniel Boone, wilderness scout. s, to be sure; but in the majority of casesthese served merely to harden the fibre. Year inyear out the food was wholesome and generallyabundant. Besides the game, fish, berries, and otherwild products they had cornbread, Indian pudding,maple sugar, milk, butter, and sweet potatoes. Theirdays were spent in the open air. From the timethey could toddle they were given tasks within theirstrength, all of which required long continued muscu-lar effort. When in their teens they used the axe,drove the teams, lifted at the logs and timbers, heldthe plough, wrestled wi
. Daniel Boone, wilderness scout. s, to be sure; but in the majority of casesthese served merely to harden the fibre. Year inyear out the food was wholesome and generallyabundant. Besides the game, fish, berries, and otherwild products they had cornbread, Indian pudding,maple sugar, milk, butter, and sweet potatoes. Theirdays were spent in the open air. From the timethey could toddle they were given tasks within theirstrength, all of which required long continued muscu-lar effort. When in their teens they used the axe,drove the teams, lifted at the logs and timbers, heldthe plough, wrestled with the clearing and the plantingof the stubborn soil. As offset to this heavy labour,which might otherwise tend to make them clumsyand musclebound, were their expeditions into theforest; at first, as we have said, after the cattle andwild nuts and berries near at home, later in pursuitof game for the family meat supply. The necessityfor wariness, not only to get the game but to savetheir own scalps, made them as supple and endur-. Many times on the frontier of those days it had happenedthat the warriors stalking by had been painted far war Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout 11 ing as their home labour made them sinewy andstrong. This physical prowess was further encouraged bythe sports of the day. They did not have baseball,nor basket ball nor football. But when boys, orgrown men, got together they played games just thesame. Catch-as-catch-can wrestling was much invogue. There were no complicated rules. Youjust got hold of the other fellow and tried to throwhim. Technicalities did not go. It did you no goodto prove that both shoulders were not on the ground;you were flat on your back, and that was got you nowhere to flop promptly and then play adefensive game flat on your tummy; you were down,and—what was the real point—your opponent couldbeat your face in or tomahawk you, were it the realthing. You were licked. They ran footraces, too,at all distances; jumped, both h
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