. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . eir limbs oftenassumed the appearance of serpents, or de-mons. Around us all was blackness. When our fire had been burning for abouthalf an hour, Matthew having unbuckled hispack, took out some dried deers flesh, upon THE WOODS. 107 which we made a hearty supper. We talkedon various subjects; and Mat, who wasclever in telling a story, amused me very muchfor a time. At last, however, I fell asleep. I slept pretty well during the night, though Iwaked up several times,and saw Mat with oneeye open, at my t
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . eir limbs oftenassumed the appearance of serpents, or de-mons. Around us all was blackness. When our fire had been burning for abouthalf an hour, Matthew having unbuckled hispack, took out some dried deers flesh, upon THE WOODS. 107 which we made a hearty supper. We talkedon various subjects; and Mat, who wasclever in telling a story, amused me very muchfor a time. At last, however, I fell asleep. I slept pretty well during the night, though Iwaked up several times,and saw Mat with oneeye open, at my that I had afaithful sentinel to keepguard, I fell back intomy repose. When thesun rose it was a beau-tiful frosty morning,and the black and graysquirrels were enliven-ing the woods withtheir merry should gladly havedwelt in the place for ^*x * •, —^ a long time, and reallybegan to feel that I should like to turnIndian and make the forest my dwelling-place. But this was momentary: we soonbegan our march, and entering the high road,proceeded on our way to 108 WIT BOUGHT. We reached Albany in a few days, andfinding a sloop about to depart for New York,we concluded to take passage in her and goby the Hudson river to that city: this wasa little out of our way, but we did not mindthat. The captain of the vessel was aDutchman named Dyke: he was a short,stout, broad-shouldered man, and had a pipein his mouth nearly the whole time. MatOlmsted called him Captain Volcano.
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