Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young (1887)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York : John D. Williams · leaf 25
han another, it was gunpowder. Why he had sucha fancy for it, Icannot tell, unlessbecause it was anoisy, tearing, dan-gerous thing, likehimself. But bethis as it may, he spent more than half the littlemoney he could get in buying it. Everyday he was firing off some old pistol-barrel,rammed full of… … LARGE GAME. 13 he and I went among the mountains to huntfor something. Pretty soon we saw a squir-rel, but Bill was so intent on killing a bear,a raccoon, or some large animal, that hescorned to shoot a squirrel. As we went on,we met with various kinds of small game,but none worthy of the attention…
Children's stories, American
Internet Archive · New York Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial252dodg-47-19.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial71dodg-437-331.webp)
