Get me my
gun, and I'll try what the forest will do for me--especially after I
have my dog."
"Well, we shall see; perhaps you'll like to come out with me sometimes
and learn woodcraft, for Edward knows as much as I do now, and can go
out by himself."
"Of course I will, Jacob: I want to learn every thing."
"Well, there's a little money left in the bag yet, and I will go to
Lymington to-morrow. Now I think it is time we were in bed; and if you
are all as tired as I am, you will sleep soundly."
Jacob put into the cart the next day about forty of the chickens which
Alice had reared; the others were kept to increase the number in the
poultry-yard. They had cost little or nothing bringing up; for when
quite young, they only had a little oatmeal cake, and afterward, with
the potatoes which were left, they found themselves, as fowls can
always do when they have a great range of ground to go over.
Jacob came back at sunset, with all the articles. He brought a new
suit for Alice and Edith, with some needles and thread, and worsted,
and gave her some money which was left from the sale of the chickens,
after he had made the purchases. He also bought a new suit for Edward
and Humphrey, and a gun, which was much approved of by Humphrey, as it
had a larger bore and carried a heavier bullet than either Jacob's or
Edward's; and there was a white kitten for Alice and Edith.
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