TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



>tli and Parentage — DifiSculties of his widowed Mother — Moves to the West — Ac 

 ddent on the Road — Settles on Flintstone — Induced by an Aunt, John Spurgin'i 

 wife, to leave the maternal roof — Kemoves to Allegany County, and settles in a 

 small Cabin — Great abundance of Game — Again removes, with his Uncle, to Mo- 

 nongahela County, Virginia — Then again back to the " Blooming Rose " — Becomes 

 acquainted with Mary McMuUen, bis future Wife — Goes one quarter to School, 

 being all his Education — Falls in love with Mary — Goes to see her at night, and 

 the old man, her Father, sets the Dog on him, supposing him to be a prowling 

 Wolf — Ludicrous scene in escaping — Aunt has an Heir, after twenty years' mar- 

 riage, and treats the Author unkindly — First success in Deer-Hunting — Aunt, in 

 an ill-humor, strikes him with a heavy wooden Shovel — Leaves his Uncle and 

 Aunt — Goes Hunting again, and kills a tine Buck, but gets bis Feet nearly Frozen 

 — Takes leave of his Betrothed — Both much affected 13 



CHAPTER II. 



Starts for Wheeling, and reaches his Uncle James Spurgin's — Good Advice by 

 Uncle, suited to all Young Men — Determines to be guided by it — Continues his 

 Journey — Reaches Union Town — Meets with his Grandfather, and also his Mo- 

 ther — Affecting Interview — Relates the bad usage of his Aunt — Spends a week 

 there — Meets with General Biggs — Good Rifle-shooting — The General wishes him 

 to go to Ohio — Declines going — Reaches Wheeling, and is hired by John <'aldwell 

 —Gets acquainted with Daughter Nancy— His first Bear Hunt — Nancy describes 

 •n Indian Attack — Old Lady does not treat him kindly — Stays four months — 

 Leaves, to the regret of the family — Misfortunes of Caldwell's family 31 



CHAPTER III. 



Returns to his Mother's — Is employed by Mr. Foot, at a dollar a day, to shoot Squt^■ 

 rels in his Corn-field — Shoots nine days, killing hundreds- Goes to see his Be- 

 trothed at " Blooming Rose" — Interesting meeting — Engagement, but *o wait 

 until older — Has a hunt and Trout-fishing with Uncle Spurgin — Good success — 



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