After dinner, Jack had climbed to the higher branches of the trees to place his snares, and found the pigeons were making nests.

I then told him to look often to the snares, for fear our own poor birds should be taken; and, above all, never in future to fire into the tree.
"Papa," said little Francis, "can we not sow some gunpowder, and then we shall have plenty ?" This proposal was received with shouts of laughter, which greatly discomposed the little innocent fellow.

Professor Ernest immediately seized the opportunity to give a lecture on the composition of gunpowder.
At the end of the day my sledge was finished.

Two long curved planks of wood, crossed by three pieces, at a distance from each other, formed the simple conveyance.

The fore and hind parts were in the form of horns, to keep the load from falling off.