the gate and was going towards the wood, when I
heard a voice from the road,--

"Boy!"

I looked around, and made no answer.

"Where are yer going, _yer honor_?"

"I am going hunting," said I; and I walked on very fast.

I came to a wooded hill, and the scenery all around was
delightful, just like a picture. Below the hill was a
long pasture, and through it ran a stream of water
overhung with old trees. Under the trees were some
cattle.

I was going down towards the pasture when I heard a very
distressing noise,--

O-o-o-o-o!

"This is an English landscape," said I to myself. "How
much more lovely it is than castles, abbeys, and tombs!"
and I was trying to think of some poetry, such as Frank
would have quoted, when I heard that alarming sound
again,--

O-o-o-o-o!

I noticed that one of the fine animals had separated
himself from the rest of the herd by the shady brook,
and was coming out to meet me, looking very important.
Presently he put down his head, gave the earth a scrape
with his foot, and then came jumping towards me,
bounding and plunging over the hillocks, like a ship on
a heavy sea.

I turned right around, just as I did when I saw the
bear, and I remembered that Master Lewis might not like
to have me venture too far in my first hunting
expedition.

I ran! didn't I run? I soon heard the same deep sound
again, "nearer, clearer, deadlier than before," as the
reading book says.

I had almost regained the top of the hill, when the
animal bellowed almost right behind me. There was a tree
close by, and I went _up_. It was just as easy for me to
climb it as though it had been a ladder.

The animal bounded up the hill, and stood under the
tree, pawing the earth and making the same hollow noise.

I drew my bow, and let fly an arrow at him.

"Boy, come down!"

There was a thick, fat man, with a great stomach, coming
up the hill. He appeared greatly excited, and quite out
of breath. He presently arrived at the foot of the tree.

"Boy, bring me that bow and arrow."

I came down the tree more scared at the man than I was
at the animal. I handed him the bow, and what do you
think he did with it?

He gave me a dreadful cut across my back, and said,--

"Where'd yer come from? Take _that_ and That