A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION.
Our small boy took down the old Queen's arm, from its beckets over the chimney-piece, and with the dog Argus in company, went out to shoot a squirrel. He found the squirrel not far away, comfortably perched in a low-hanging spruce tree, and straightway brought his piece, to bear upon the game. He shut his eyes, and pulled the trigger. The charge of the musket went one way, and the musket.itself, taking the small boy with it, went another. As for the squirrel, he sat calmly and sedately in the old place, evidently wondering" what all that noise was being made for;
At length the small boy picked up-his musket, and started for home, dreaming on the way of arnica and opodeldoc for jbis bruised and.aching shoulders.
Arrived at home he met his brother John, who kindly asked him what luck had attended his sporting efforts. The small boy glared at him fiercely. " John, did you charge that old Queen's arm?" " I did, my brother." " For what purpose P" ' " For Tom Willey's old cat! "
" Oil!—-ah !—-yes—l see. O, John, I wish that cat had been where I was. That's the end of the musket for sure 6 execution. 'Just you try it." But;Jobn was willing to take the small boy's word. .
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2990, 14 September 1878, Page 4
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214A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2990, 14 September 1878, Page 4
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