THE COUNTBY BOY 



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Nestucca, so I went over to have a great hunt, 

 and the first day I was there I actually found 

 a band of geese big enough so that when I 

 shot into the entire bunch one on the outskirts 

 fell. When this small goose hit the sand, he 

 raised to his feet and ran, me after him, and 

 after quite a run 

 I overtook h i m 

 and found only 

 one wing broken. 

 I always had 

 wanted to own 

 live wild birds 

 and things, so I 

 saw my chance. 

 I carried him to 

 the cabin care- 

 fully and cut up 

 a cigar box lid 

 into splints and set his wing and I was over- 

 joyed to see an expression in his cute little 

 black eyes that he sort o' knew I was trying 

 to cure him instead o' kill him. He got rap- 

 idly better and I started for Silverton with 

 him and there astonished our family by the 

 kindly way this Hutchins goose let me doctor 



