Two Little Confederates

the county to secure the supplies which were necessary for their support; one of the boys usually being her escort and riding behind her on one of the old mules t

tches, and through woods mile after mile. They were generally useful only to a race, such as the negroes, which had an instinct for direction like that s

r, and the expeditions made by the boys' mother be

the place-unless the old wild sow in the big woods (who had refused to be "driven up" the fall before) still survived, which was doubtful; for the most

in the most distant and wildest part, where they sloped down towar

he dry leaves. Finally, they decided to station themselves each at the foot of a hickory and wait for the squirrels. The

faint "cranch, cranch, cranch," sounded in the dry leaves. At first the boys thought it was a squirrel, and both of them grasped

whose tree was a little nearer the

yes in the direction of the sound, which was now very distinct. The underbrush, however, was too thick for them to see anything. At length Willy rose and pushed

gs," he mutter

alled Willy, in a

ha

he's got a lot of pigs with her-

p and ran thro

st six

follo

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ough the bushes in the direction from which th

shoot

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hey could. What great new

d boars, isn't it?" sh

gh the thicket, and came to an end at the marsh which marked the beginning of the swamp. Beyond that it could not be trac