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filled with salt. The colts are enticed thither and finding whence the comfort comes, are here first won to be docile several words scratched out. These are called by the country people "lick logs."

      // And next he learned to be a good rider; and when the horses got to be three years old, he would break them for use. His mother's corn-field covered seven or eight acres. Then there were no ploughs; and he helped in 
      hoeing the corn-field, to raise subsistence for the family; and he also helped in taking care of the garden for vegetables. His mother was very much pleased with her son's conduct and thought him most promising. He was only word scratched out a lad, then, but he had a great many friends, not only among the young, but also among the aged. 
      Every autumn his mother would buy a ariety of small articles of goods, to sell again to the hunters, -- some on credit.