The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23

THERE were Just five of them, all
under eighteen, healthy, frolicsome
boys. They had been reading
Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales in the
library OF the high school where they at
tended, and were always talking of the
happy, free life OF Natty Bumpo, and
wishing they might live while with the
Indians
"I'll tell you what we can do, said
John Whist, whose father was a mer-
chant in the town, 1--WE can get two
weeks holiday and go to the deep woods
and live like the Indians, be real Indians
ourselves"
20, wish we COULD" cried all the
others in one voice. Lets see our par
ents and o." said Bob Lee. Whereupon
each boy decided to 90 before those
dignitaries, indulgent fathers, and plead
for two weeks off, with only a blanket as
a protection against taking cold. When
a boy sets his head he usually has his
way. So these boys got what they desir.
ed, not because they were boys, but
mostly because they had been good,
studious boys and their fathers cared to
grant them this much liberty.
Lets suppose we are living beyond
civiliz ltion, said they, land not know
the use of firearms with which to pro-
cure our game"
So the two weeks before Thanksgiving
they find their way eastward toward the
Blue Ridge Mountains, with not mouth
full OF provisions, going away from home
just as If they intended to return for
dinner.
After they had travelled two days they
felt that they were out OF sight and hear
ing OF civiliz alton 80, tired from walk
ing, they, fguratiyely speaking, pitched
their tent" and slept as peacefully as
ever they did at home in their own snug
beds
The next morning they were awak-
ened by the cheerful singing OF thrushes
around them, greetings they were not
accust )med to at that early hour.
ave must have some breakfast" said
Will R)bb, the one boy among them who
was always hungry, and looking around
he noticed tree near with a hole en-
tering near the ground, and approaching
nearer he saw some hairs on the tree.
"a rabbit boys" said he. 1t took but a
few minutes for them to procure long
hickory stick and twist the rabbit out OF
the tree while two of the other boys,
with flint and finder had kindled
uIe Iehuy lOT COOkluB. 10 Dt sure lnlb
breakfast was all meat, out heartily relish
ed by the boys.
AS soon as breakfast was over they set
TO work to trap for some other game, for
getting that Hawkeye disdained to trap
for game 80 long as he had his youthful
ness, a steady hand and sure eye
Some bark was made into a string,
some sticks procured and a snare was set
for the rabbits, and coop for the part
ridges and pheasants they had seen come
near. All this was done as prepare
tions for the next breakfast, for they
meant to explore the neighborhood OF
the camp during the day. So pitching
their blankets into the forks of a dog wood,
they started off looking for fruits, nuts,
etc. They had not gone far until they
found luscious grapes, persimmons al
most as large AS the Japan persimmon,
hickory nuts both large and small,
pecans, white walnuts quite as nice as
the English walnut, aud chestnuts and
chinkapins in great abundance. These
they only tasted TO make sure of their
genuineness, having decided to leave