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no more bears or deer tlian would keep my table supplied 

 with meat ; which was an easy matter to do ; for there 

 was no time when I could not kill a deer, as I always 

 saw from ten to twenty in a day. I thus kept my house 

 well supplied with provisions at all times. 



About this time, Mary's eldest sister paid us a visit ; 

 and as she arrived at one o'clock in the day, Mary asked 

 me to bring home some young turkeys for supper. Tell- 

 ing her I could soon do that, I called Watch, w'ho hnd 

 been lame for more than a month, from the bite of the 

 bear, and was still stiff; but I thought motion would be 

 good for him. Into the glades I went, where I soon saw 

 three or four old turkeys, with perhaps thirty or forty 



young ones. I sent Watch after them, but they flew into 

 the low white-oak trees ; and when I would walk fast, as 

 if I was going past them, they would sit as still as they 

 could, for me to pass on ; but after walking twelve or fif- 

 teen steps, I would stop and shoot off their heads. I thus 

 kept on till I had shot off the heads of nine young tur- 

 keys, and I don't believe I was more than an hour away 

 from home. 



I continued till fall hunting bees and shooting turkeys, 

 and as many deer as I wanted. In September old Mrs. 

 McMullen visited us, arriving in the afternoon ; and Mary 

 said to me that she wanted some fresh venison, as she knew 



