Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . THE KNOCKOUT Adapted From The Autobiography of Davy Crockett. NE day as I was walking through thewoods, I came to a clearing on a hill-side, and as I climbed the slope I wasstartled by loud, profane and boister-ous voices which seemed to proceedfrom a thick cover of undergrowthabout two hundred yards in advanceof ,ou kin, kin you? Yes I kin and Im able to do it! Boo-oo-oo!—O wake snakes, brimstone and fire! Dont hold me,Nick Stoval; the fights made up and Ill jumpdown your
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . THE KNOCKOUT Adapted From The Autobiography of Davy Crockett. NE day as I was walking through thewoods, I came to a clearing on a hill-side, and as I climbed the slope I wasstartled by loud, profane and boister-ous voices which seemed to proceedfrom a thick cover of undergrowthabout two hundred yards in advanceof ,ou kin, kin you? Yes I kin and Im able to do it! Boo-oo-oo!—O wake snakes, brimstone and fire! Dont hold me,Nick Stoval; the fights made up and Ill jumpdown your throat before you kin say quit. Now Nick, dont hold him! Just let the wildcatcome, and Ill tame him. Nedll see me a fair fight,wont you Ned? O yes, Ill see you a fair fight; blast my old shoesif I dont. Thats sufficient, as Tom Haines said when hesaw the elephant; now let him come. Thus they went on with countless oaths and withmuch that I could not distinctly hear. In mercysname, I thought, what a band of ruffians is at workhere. I quickened my gait and had come nearlyopposite the thick grove, whence the noises pro-ceeded, when my eye caught, indistinctly throughthe fol
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