He was still living with the Quaker.

Game was abundant, and the young hunter often brought in valuable supplies of animal food.

There were frequent shooting-matches in that region.

David, proud of his skill, was fond of attending them.
But his Quaker employer considered them a species of gambling, which drew together all the idlers and vagrants of the region, and he could not approve of them.
There was another boy living at that time with the Quaker.

They practised all sorts of deceptions to steal away to the shooting-matches under pretence that they were engaged in other things.