. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . be wasted on anything except bears or wolves. It seemed to me as if 1 saw on that day game enoughto feed all the people in England for a full twenty-fourhours; the earth was literally covered with it after wehad been moving forward slowly three or four hours,and in that time, judging from the reports of firearms,more than one bear or wolf had been put past the powerto do mischief. Jethro and T counted on taking home at least twogood skins that night, and yet, although upward offorty bears and twenty two wolves were killed, welads never had
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . be wasted on anything except bears or wolves. It seemed to me as if 1 saw on that day game enoughto feed all the people in England for a full twenty-fourhours; the earth was literally covered with it after wehad been moving forward slowly three or four hours,and in that time, judging from the reports of firearms,more than one bear or wolf had been put past the powerto do mischief. Jethro and T counted on taking home at least twogood skins that night, and yet, although upward offorty bears and twenty two wolves were killed, welads never had an opportunity of discharging our guns. The Indians captured most of the game, and, savefor our not being able to say that we had killed so manybears, we lads need not have been very greatly down at THE NEW HOME 59 the mouth, for a pelt freshly taken from the animal couldbe bought of the savages for almost any trifling trinket. THE NEW HOME * We had one more bea-r hunt before the first of thelog houses had been built; but I did not take part in it,. because of our being so nearly done with our buildingthat mother urged us to make every effort at windingup the task within the next four and twenty hours, tothe end that we might be able to leave the cave amongthe first of the company. By this time we had among us many laborers, andfather hired two men to saw logs into boards, so that 60 , STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA we might have floors in our home, and doors that wereseemly to look upon. I saw many dwellings in which the floor was nothingmore than the earth beaten down hard, and the doorsmade of riven logs to form rough planks calledpuncheons; but my father, counting to spend theremainder of his days in this land of America, gavedue heed to the comfort of himself and of his family. In later days I have heard much concerning thesuffering endured by people who came to other portionsof the New World to build homes, and have been toldof the shifts they made in putting up dwellings, or in
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