TH' I E



ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE.


             CHAPTER I.

                 OME men choose to live in
                 crowded cities ;-others are
                 pleased withthe peaceful quiet
                 of a country farm; while some
                 love to roam through wild for-
                 ests, and make their homes in
                 the wilderness. The man of
                 whom I shall now speak, was
            one of this last class. Perhaps you
            never heard of DANIEL BOONE, the
            .Kentucky rifleman. If not, then I
            have a strange and interesting story
            to tell you.
            If, when a child was born, we knew
         that he was to become a remarkable man,
         the time and place of his birth would,
perhaps, be always remembered. But as this can
not be known, great mistakes axe Marten made on
these points. As to the time when Daniel Boone
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