tened that he said he would not be a soldier any longer, but get
to his home again as fast as he could. So in the very first ship that
sailed for his own country he came home. Here is the ship.
[Illustration]
When he left off his coloured clothes, and his gun and belts, he wore a
round hat, and went to be a farmer, and he soon bought him a bay horse,
and here he has him by the bridle.
[Illustration]
If you are a good child to-day, he will put him in a chaise and give
you a pleasant ride.
I think it much better for him to be a farmer, and to keeps pigs, and
sheep, and cows, and horses, than to be shooting men with his black
powder and leaden balls, and I wish him success in his new labour.
[Illustration]
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