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When the boys went into the house they found that their Aunt Mary had / a headache that morning, and, even with the best intentions of doing / her duty in teaching them, had been forced to go to bed. Their mother / was too much occupied with her charge of providing for a family of / over a dozen white persons, and five times as many colored dependents, / to give any time to acting as substitute in the school-room, so the / boys found themselves with a holiday before them. It seemed vain to / try to shoot duck on the creek, and the perch were averse to biting. / The boys accordingly determined to take both guns and to set out for a / real hunt in the big woods.
They received their mother's permission, and after a lunch was / prepared they started in high glee, talking about the squirrels and / birds they expected to kill.