The pigs wore then killed, and
salted down under Jacob's directions; his rheumatism did not allow him
to assist, but Humphrey and Edward rubbed in the salt, and Alice took
the pieces of pork away to the tub when they were finished. Humphrey
had been out the day before with the unknown article he had been so
long about. The next morning he went out early before breakfast and
when he returned, he brought a hare in his hand, which he laid on the
table.
"There," said he, "my spring has answered, and this is the first
fruits of it. Now I'll make some more, and we will have something by
way of a change for dinner."
They were very much pleased with Humphrey's success, and he was not a
little proud of it.
"How did you find out how to make it?"
"Why, I read in the old book of travels which Jacob brought home with
him last summer, of people catching rabbits and hares in some way like
this; I could not make it out exactly, but it gave me the idea."
We ought to have told the reader that Jacob had more than once brought
home an old book or two which he had picked up, or had given him, and
that these had been occasionally looked into by Humphrey and Edward,
but only now and then, as they had too much to do to find much time
for reading, although sometimes, in the evening, they did take them
up.
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