The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . hich raised a thick welt. Tl>e poor fellow writhed with pain,upon which the blow was repeated ; the footman then seized the whip,and amused himself in a similar manner. The negro remained passiveunder this barbarous treatment; but, as it soon appeared, he had his rea-sons for so doing. He was watching his opportunity, and having found it,a flash of lightning is not more prompt than he was in his his head crouched low, he butted at t
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . hich raised a thick welt. Tl>e poor fellow writhed with pain,upon which the blow was repeated ; the footman then seized the whip,and amused himself in a similar manner. The negro remained passiveunder this barbarous treatment; but, as it soon appeared, he had his rea-sons for so doing. He was watching his opportunity, and having found it,a flash of lightning is not more prompt than he was in his his head crouched low, he butted at the coachmans stomach, who,having the wall immediately behind him, was settled in the twinkling ofan eye; then turning suddenly at the lacquey, the negro gave him withthe sole of his foot a kick in the stomach, with such force and dexterity,that he stretched him lifeless. Leaving both his victims, he then took tohis heels with the swiftness of a deer, to the gratification of myself anda friend, who were eye-witnesses of the whole transaction. We werehighly pleased to see such gratuitous and unprovoked barbarity meet withits adequate Tsfi celebrated ?^iike Fink, the great admiral of flat-boatrnen on theWestern rivers, the William Tell of marksmen on land, and the most dar-ing of all wild-forest adventurers, was the Prince of moose-catchers. Amoose, reader, is a very large species of deer, with a body like a fat horse,without the tail, and a head something like that of a jackass, to which isappended a large pair of horns, weighing sometimes as much as ninetypounds. They are higher than an ordinary horse, and frequently weighmore. A mammoth specimen of one of these brutes had long baffled theskill of the best of marksmen and hunters, principally from his furiouscharacter, his peculiar ability to ford the most rapid and his prac-tice, on observing a single hunter on his track, of darting from an ambush,and, with the force of his horns and hoofs, dashing him to pie
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