Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 159
ng, slim legs. Iwas sure it was a chicken ! A great sportsman are you ! cried UncleCharley, not able to know a bittern from agrouse ! Why, Belt knew better all the time ! Well, I hit it, all the same, anyhow, re-sponded Hugh. Thats nothing to boast of, I should say,remarked Uncle Charley; do you… … A THl/NDER-PUMPER. Well, there are five hundred and ninety-six. So many ? Yes, said Uncle Charley, you had fivehundred and ninety-six chances to hit it. I am sorry I killed it, said Hugh ; but Ithought it was a prairie-chicken. It is a veryhandsome bird ; is it of any value ? No, replied Uncle…
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