Identifier: delahoydesboylif00inma (find matches)
Title: The Delahoydes : boy life on the Old Santa Fé trail
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Inman, Henry, 1837-1899
Subjects: Children's stories, American
Publisher: Topeka, Kan. : Crane & company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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BLUE-WINGED TEAL 83 diately begun, as the boys, like their animals, wereravenously hungry, after their ride. While Carl busied himself in cutting two sticks withforks in the ends, in which a pole was to be laid to hold -the kettle, and gathered a loi of the dead driftwood tomake a fire, Pierre shouldered his rifle and wandered ^off in search of meat. By the time that Carlos had all his preparationscompleted, the fire briskly burning and the watersputtering in the kettle for the coffee, Pierre returnee!,having succeeded in killing a couple of Blue-wingedTeal which he discovered swimming in an eddy underthe edge of the bank half a mile from camp. He hadcrawled upon them, and waited with finger on thetrigger until the birds got into line, when he pulled,and took off both their heads. In another instant hewas in the water and out again, hurrying toward campwith his game. While they were pulling the feathers off the birds,they commenced to talk together about the habits ofthe beautifully c

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