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CHAPTER II.
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A shooting-match and its consequences--New friendsintroduced to the reader--Crusoe and his motherchange masters.
Shortly after the incident narrated1 in the lastchapter the squatters of the Mustang Valley losttheir leader. Major Hope suddenly announced his intentionof quitting the settlement and returning to thecivilized world. Private matters, he said, required hispresence there--matters which he did not choose tospeak of, but which would prevent his returning againto reside among them. Go he must, and, being a manof determination, go he did; but before going he distributedall his goods and chattels3 among the settlers.
He even gave away his rifle, and Fan and Crusoe.
These last, however, he resolved should go together;and as they were well worth having, he announced thathe would give them to the best shot in the valley. Hestipulated that the winner should escort him to thenearest settlement eastward4, after which he might returnwith the rifle on his shoulder.
Accordingly, a long level piece of ground on theriver's bank, with a perpendicular5 cliff at the end ofit, was selected as the shooting-ground, and, on theappointed day, at the appointed hour, the competitorsbegan to assemble.
"Well, lad, first as usual," exclaimed Joe Blunt, as hereached the ground and found Dick Varley there beforehim.
"I've bin6 here more than an hour lookin' for a newkind o' flower that Jack7 Morgan told me he'd seen.
And I've found it too. Look here; did you ever seeone like it before?"Blunt leaned his rifle against a tree, and carefullyexamined the flower.
"Why, yes, I've seed a-many o' them up about theRocky Mountains, but never one here-away. It seemsto have gone lost itself. The last I seed, if I remimberrightly, wos near the head-waters o' the YellowstoneRiver, it wos--jest where I shot a grizzly8 bar.""Was that the bar that gave you the wipe on thecheek?" asked Varley, forgetting the flower in hisinterest about the bear.
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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