[The Grammar School Boys Snowbound by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grammar School Boys Snowbound CHAPTER VI 3/17
Tom Reade had brought a Rochester lamp; Greg and Dan had contributed lanterns and Dick a dark lantern. "I see one thing we haven't got, but ought to have," said Harry Hazelton to Dick. "What's that ?" asked the latter. "A shotgun.
Joe Miller has a good one, and I know he'd lend it to us if we asked him." "We won't ask him," Dick replied. "Now, why not? We have money enough so we can afford to buy some shells, and----" "Harry, did you tell your folks you expected there'd be a shotgun along on this trip ?" "'Course not.
I didn't know there would be one." "Do you think your folks would have let you come if they had thought of such a thing ?" "Maybe not.
But they didn't say a word against our having one." "Harry, if our parents were to hear that we had taken a shotgun along they'd be worried to death," said Dick gravely. "Humph! We're old enough to manage a gun," remonstrated Hazelton. "Perhaps we are, but it would worry our home folks just the same.
Boys are always believed to be careless with firearms.
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