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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 variety of small articles of goods, to sell again to the hunters, -- some on credit, to be paid for in peltry. George Gist had now grown to be a young man. His mother would send him out with the hungers to whom she had given credit. He would take loose horses along with him, and collecting from the hunters the skins of the deer & other game with which they paid their debts, he would pack them on the extra horses & return with them word scratched out to