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"An' now, Peter," said the old man, extracting a pinch of snuff, "now for the noos 'bout Black Jarge, it be." "What of him, Ancient?" The old man shook his head. "It took eight on 'em to du it, Peter, an' now four on 'em's a-layin' in their beds, an' four on 'em's 'obblin' on crutches an' all over a couple o' rabbits though theer be some fules as says they was pa'tridges!" "Why what do you mean?"
Course I do shoot a deer once in a while in season; and lots o' pa'tridges, they bein' so tame yuh c'n knock them over as they sit on the lower limb o' a tree after flushin'. I ketch wheens o' trout, too, from time to time; but I give yuh my word I never yet killed anything when the law was on it, never!" When Obed said a thing in his emphatic way, he was to be relied on, Max thought.
The farmer said, "Long, red-headed man, kind of sickly-lookin'?" "We didn't see the man" "Little woman, skinny-lookin; pootty tonguey?" "We didn't see her, eitha; but I guess we hea'd her at the back of the house." "Lot o' children, about as big as pa'tridges, runnin' round in the bushes?" "Yes! And a very pretty-appearing girl; about thi'teen or fou'teen, I should think."
"Pa'tridges' nests?" he said, one spring, with a cock of his eye calculated to show at once a humorous recognition of his genius and his delinquencies. "Sartain! I wish I was as sure where I keep my scythe sned!" He has learned all the lore of the woods, the ways of "wild critters," and the most efficacious means both to woo and kill them.
"When once we get beyond that we shall soon see the land o' promise. I think to-morrow I shall have to take you two boys with me and see if we cannot get some fresh venison. Our stores are runnin' low, and a few pa'tridges or wild turkeys would not be bad, either, and I am sure we shall find plenty o' both in the valley." "There must be pigeons left from those we shot yesterday," suggested Peleg.
"Now's our chance to kill two pa'tridges with one stone! If we can make out to get down into t'other valley in time to see how them varmints come out, we'll know the way in. More'n that, we can ambush 'em and so make sartain sure o' five o' the six hosses we're a-going to need, come night. But we've got to leg for it like Ahimaaz the son of Zadok!"
"You ought to know. How was that 'shot' exploded? How did they get in here without you seeing them? Answer me!" "I don't know," repeated the man. "I jest went over in th' bresh to kill a few pa'tridges, and when I come back I found her this way. I wasn't goin' to close down for three hours yet, and I thought they was no use a hangin' around here."
As Raven remembered, it was something about pa'tridges and his gun. Whether he was shaken by fright, one could not have told, but he was, as Charlotte remarked upon it afterward, "all to pieces."
When he told them that "A Scout is kind" meant that they must not only be kind to people, but that they must protect and not kill harmless birds and animals, David protested: "If we promises that, sir, 'twould stop us huntin' seals and deer and pa'tridges and plenty o' things." "Oh, no!" explained Doctor Joe. "It does not mean that. It means that you must kill nothing needlessly.
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