The Life of Daniel Boone the Founder of the State of Kentucky
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These who could not exercise these mechanic arts were under the necessity of giving labor or barter to their neighbors, in ex- change for the use of them, so far as their uecessities required. ffd 274 LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. " Sports. One important pastime of our boys was that of imitating the noise of every bird and beast in the woods. This faculty was not merely a pastime, but a very necessary part of education, on account of its utility in cei*tain circumstances. The imitations of the gobbling..., and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought those keen-eyed and ever-watchful tenants of the forests within the reach of their rifle. The bleating of the fawn brought its dam to her death in the same way. The hunter often col- lected a company of mopish owls to the trees about his camp, and amused himself with their hoarse screaming ; his howl would raise and ob- tain responses from a pack of wolves, so as to inform him of their neighborhood, as well as guard him against their depredations.
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