Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry (1844)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York, Wiley & Putnam · leaf 21
us in making whistles, andsetting snares and traps for quails, partridges,and rabbits. He was also an expert fisher-man, and had a knack of putting the hookand line into the water in such an insinuatingmanner, that he always caught mofe and !0 WIT BOUGHT. larger fish than any one else. He was… … me, who. having been brought up hi thecity, had but little acquaintance with thesearts. But although Bill was thus clever, he wasso restless and enterprising, as always to bein some scrape or other. One day. he had THE FOX-TRAP. 11 seen the burrow of a woodchuck, which is akind of American marmot,…
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