tle around them they moved to the wilds of North Carolina. 4. Daniel was not like the rest of the family. He hunted in the forest for game, while his brothers and sisters helped around the home. 5. He was very fond of hunting the wild deer. It was thought a great honor to shoot one. He didn't care so much for the flesh of the deer as he did for the honor of shooting it. 6. Sometimes Boone hunted the deer at night. He would watch for the eyes of the deer to shine through the bushes. He could see the bright eyes before the body of the deer was in sight. 7. Boone was a "dead shot"; that is, he hardly ever missed his mark. The ring of his rifle at night was a sure sign that a deer had been killed. 8. When Boone was about thirty years old he crossed the mountains to hunt in the West. Seven other men went with him. 9. The only living things to be found in the West were Indians and wild animals. It was only a short time before all the men who went with Boone to the West had been killed by Indians. 10. The Indians tried very hard to kill Boone also, for he had killed several Indians. They could never catch him, however. He was too smart for them. II. After the other white men had been killed, Boone lived a long while alone. He had no friends but his dogs and gun. 12. He cleared away a little patch of ground near his hut and planted some tobacco. When the tobacco was ready to be cut he tied the leaves in bunches and hung them under the roof of his hut to dry. He hung them in long rows on poles. 13. One day some Indians came to his hut and found him up on the poles among the bunches of tobacco. Now they were sure they had him. They told him to come down. The Indians didn't want to kill him at this time, they wanted to carry him away alive. 14. Boone told them he would down in a few minutes. Then he placed the poles so that when he stepped on one the whole lot would fall. 15. At last he was ready. The tobacco was very dry, and when he stepped on the pole the whole lot came tumbling down. The dust of the tobacco filled the eyes of the Indians like so much pepper! Before they could open their eyes Boone was out of the hut and running away like a deer. SUBJECT LIII. THOMAS A. EDISON. 1. Mr. Edison, like most other great men, was once a poor boy. He went to school only a few months, but by some means he learned to read well. He read a great many books, and, like Franklin and Lincoln, he learned a great deal from them. 2. For a while Edison earned a little money by selling newspapers on a railroad train. He didn't waste any time, for while the train was running from one place to another he was always studying. 3. One of Edison's friends was a telegraph operator. Edison thought it was a fine thing to know how to telegraph, so he went to work to learn how. He learned in a very short time, and became one of the best operators in the country. When he 4. Edison lived in the West. could not get work near home he made up his mind to go to Boston. He was told that he might get work in an office in Boston. Boston office the 5. As he entered the men made fun of him. common, and he didn't look at all like the young men of the city. 6. The manager was not in when Edison called, so he was asked to sit down and wait. When the manager came in he |