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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 26

An illustration from Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young, 1887, leaf 26 — We walk-ed along as fast as wecould, and Bill, whowas never out of spi-rits, beguiled the timeby telling what hewould have done, ifsomething had fallen in his way. If a wolfhadcorne along in the woods, said Bill, draw-ing up the old piece, and taking aim at an oldstump, and if he had come near… … 14 WIT BOUGHT. in an emphatic whisper, Be still; I seeone ! he cocked the gun and brought theheavy old piece to a level with his eye. Aftera long, portentous aim, during which Iwinked so hard as nearly to put my eyes out—bang ! it went, and Bill was stretchedbackward upon the grass in an instant, by

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