Capitolo 7
mother and favorite friends. If to-day, through the error of years the
question asked what conducted me from the servitude of my dissatisfaction it,
he/she would remain without answer. Possibly it was the advantage of good birth;
the prayers of a mother had certainly followed always me, and my feet
you/he/she was finally conducted in the runs of industry. Since that day of
uncertainty, nephews are sat on my knee, while asking to great voice for a history
on Indian, the war or footsteps of bovine livestock. If I were to assign a motive
to leave so a tangible record of my life, would be, that mine
posterity--not the present generation, absorbed in his/her avarice of profit,
but a more distant and a healthier--you/he/she should be trained for gleaning a faint
the idea of one of their ancestors. A worthy and secondary motive is
gives an idea of the old West and to quickly preserve from forgetfulness a
evanescent type of pioneers.
My personal aspect can be of small interest to coming
generations, but rather what I felt, saw and finished. It was
always a matter of regret to me that I was such poor hit with a
gun. The only two exceptions I deign of mention mere accidents they were.
In the house of my childhood, in Virginia my father killed every year a great
number of hogs for the necessities of family as to provision ours
slave's families with smoked bacon. The hogs usually raced in the wood, while feeding
and flourishing on the tree, but in front of deadly duration that we have always tormented
them in the fields and ended theirs fattening up with peas and corn.
It was usual to wait up to that the beginning in winter, or around the
second wave of cold, to butcher and there was to the question of time in
approximately fifty great hogs to kill. It was an event of frill with us boys, the
more old man to shoot one was permitted of whom or more with a rifle. The
hogs had been made to pay in a small field for the killing, and toward
the closing of the day a number of them, has been wounded and
asking for a second or third hit, it became oblique. These subsequent hits