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at Lowesloft, or a village day school near
by, but I confess I liked equally well to shoulder
my great grandfather's old musket, a regular
old "Brown Bess," which I was the happy possessor
of, and with a few charges of powder and shot,
march to the fields to frighten the rooks and
small birds from the newly sown seed, and
I will recollect the anger of my father when
he discovered that, to make the old gun look
more like a fowling piece, I had cut off a
long piece of the stock which like all muskets
extended nearly up to the muzzle. Again when
evening came I was proud to be on the back,
sleek and broad as it was, of my favorite '[Dodman?]'
as we called him, with his black shining coat,
and good tempered looking face, as I took
him and his yokefellows on a summer's
evening to their night's pasture. 'Gipsey' was
my next favorite, she was a 'fast-one' and
always ready to give the 'go by' to anything
on the road, but her temper was not like
my '[Dodman?]'s', no coaxing or cunning would
entice her from the meadow easily, she was
not to be caught with chaff. Whilst my
'[Dodman?]' after a good scamper round the
field when he saw what my errand was,
would fling his heels into the air and then
walk up to me and poke his nose right
into the bridle.

Fishing was another of my favorite
amusements for leisure time, and on the

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