It was a new experience for her.

She felt proud and pleased to have control of a gun, and it was not long before she began to think that it would be a splendid thing if she could shoot something that would do for supper.
How surprised they would all be if she should bring home some game that she had shot, all by herself! She made up her mind that she would do it, if she could see anything to shoot.
And so she walked quietly along the path with her thumb on the hammer of the gun, all ready to cock it the instant she should see a good chance for a shot..