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Title: The life and adventures of Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky : interspersed with incidents in the early annals of the country
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Pioneers Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York : International Book Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ht a cradle from the hollow tree would rockthem to a healthful repose. The older children,training to the pursuits and pleasures of a life inthe woods, and acquiring vigor of body and mindwith every day, in their season of prime, would feel LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. 4 J no shame that they had hearts softened by the warmcurrent of true feeling. When their own silveihairs lay thin upon the brow, and their eye wasdim, and sounds came confused on their ear, andtheir step faltered, and their form bent, they wouldfind consideration, and care, and tenderness fromchildren, whose breasts were not steeled by ambi-tion, nor hardened by avarice; in whom the beau-tiful influences of the indulgence of none but natu-ral desires and pure affections would not be dead-ened by the selfishness, vanity, and fear of ridicule,that are the harvest of what is called civilized andcultivated life. Such at least, in after life, were thecontrasts that Boone used to present between sociallife and that of the woodsman.
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LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. 43 CHAPTER III. Boone, with Finley and others, start on their exploring expedition —Boone kills a panther in the night—Their progress over the moun-tains^—They descend into the great valley—Description of the newcountry—Herds of buffaloes—Their wanderings in the wilderness. The first of May, 1769, Finley and Boone, withfour others, whose names were Stewart, Holden,Mooney, and Cool, and who had pledged them-selves to the undertaking, were assembled at thehouse of Boone, in readiness to commence theirjourney. It may be imagined that all the neigh-bors gathered to witness their departure. A rifle,ammunition, and a light knapsack were all the bag-gage with which they dared encumber themselves.Provisions for a few days were bestowed along withthe clothing deemed absolutely necessary for com-fort upon the long route. No shame could attachto the manhood and courage of Daniel Boone fromthe fact that tears were said to have rushed to hiseyes, as he kissed his

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