THE



ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE.


             CHAPTER I.

                 OME men choose to live in
  k              crowded cities ;-others are
                 pleased with tie peaceful quiet
             \ i   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. It not, then I
            have a strange and interesting story
      t     \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 are often made on
these points. As to the time when Daniel Boone
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