. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . s 387 25. Che Sea Ducks 391 26. Owl-stuffing plate 405 27. <3uy gave a leap of terror and fell * 433 28. Q3ell, sonny, cookin dinner ? ....... 480 29. Re nervously fired and missedn . « « . . 529 Parti#Ienpan & flan Two Little Savages i Glimmerings AN was much like other twelve-year-old boys in having a keen interestin Indians and in wild life, but hediffered from most in this, that heA ^3^ A ^ever got over it. Indeed, as het-^^ ms Jc&ll grew older, he found
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . s 387 25. Che Sea Ducks 391 26. Owl-stuffing plate 405 27. <3uy gave a leap of terror and fell * 433 28. Q3ell, sonny, cookin dinner ? ....... 480 29. Re nervously fired and missedn . « « . . 529 Parti#Ienpan & flan Two Little Savages i Glimmerings AN was much like other twelve-year-old boys in having a keen interestin Indians and in wild life, but hediffered from most in this, that heA ^3^ A ^ever got over it. Indeed, as het-^^ ms Jc&ll grew older, he found a yet keenerpleasure in storing up the littlebits of woodcraft and Indian lorethat pleased him as a father was in poor circumstances. He was anupright man of refined tastes, but indolent—a failurein business, easy with the world and stern with hisfamily. He had never taken an interest in his sonswildwood pursuits; and when he got the idea thatthey might interfere with the boys education, heforbade them altogether. There was certainlv no reason to accuse Yan ofneglecting school. He was the head boy of his. io Two Little Savages cfass, although there were many in it older thanhimself. He was fond of books in general, but thosethat dealt with Natural Science and Indian craftwere very close to his heart. Not that he had many—there were very few in those days, and the PublicLibrary had but a poor representation of Scandinavian Sports, Grays Botanyand one or two Fenimore Cooper novels, these wereall, and Yan was devoted to them. He was a timid,obedient boy in most things, but the unwise commandto give up what was his nature merely made him adisobedient boy—turned a good boy into a bad was too much in terror of his father to disobeyopenly, but he used to sneak away at all opportunitiesto the fields and woods, and at each new bird orplant he found he had an exquisite thrill of mingledpleasure and pain—the pain because he had no namefor it or means
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