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Excerpt from The Wounded Boy: And Other Stories
Hark! I wonder if that isn't Harry Lee, with the fowling-piece his uncle sent him as a birth-day present? Said Freeman Dale, as the report of a gun startled him from the book which he had been for some time reading. Yes, mother, there he is, continued the boy; and he has shot a bird. Let me go a gunning with him, won't you? I'm afraid you'll get hurt. Guns are very dangerous things in the hands even of men, much more, thoughtless, careless boys. Suppose you were to get shot? Said the boy's mother. There isn't a bit of danger, re plied Freeman, eagerly. Not a bit of danger. Harry knows how to shoot as well as a man. And I've fired off a gun many a time. We'll be very careful. Harry's father and mother are not afraid to let him go out a gunning, and I don't see why you should be afraid to let me go. There's no danger. If not to you, there is a great deal of danger to the dear little innocent birds, said Mrs. Dale. Freeman laughed at this. He thought his mother jesting. But it was not so. Mrs. Dale was in earnest. The beautiful birds' How could you think of hurting them? They never harm ed you, nor any one, she said, with a se rions expression of countenance. Bang! Went the gun again, and in a mo ment afterward a bird fell upon upon the ground near the window. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
