Chapter 3: The Long RIFLE
t Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
into t t poucs, and t tin patc in s. tc and he gun ready loaded on his shoulder.
, for, to meet trouble y gun.
at a op and load t in and s do in bullet and pound t a fres again. at -a bear or a pant kill it s. A ime to load his gun again.
But Laura and Mary o t s.
After ts ory-telling time.
quot;tell us about the oods, Laura would beg him.
Pa crinkled up ;O; ;You dont to time I le boy.”
quot;O; Laura and Mary said. So Pa began.
tory of Pa and the oods
quot;tle boy, not muco go every afternoon to find told me never to play by t to he woods.
quot;One day I started earlier t I did not need to o see in t I forgot t dark rees, ctle rabbits playing games togettle rabbits, you knoo bed.
I began to play I alking ting til t once I tering good nig he woods.
quot;I kne I must get t he cows!
quot;I listened, but I could not t come.
quot;I s, but I dared not go o my fat ting and calling. All time tting trees and trange.
I could not find t doo dark ravines, calling and looking. I stopped and listened for t a sound but tling of leaves.
t a pant it hing.
quot;My bare legs cruck me. But I kept on, looking and calling, Sukey! Sukey! quot; Sukey! Sukey! I sed . Sukey! quot;Rig;My ood straight on end.
quot; all about ted o get out of to get home.
quot;t ter me and called again