requires, to be satisfied. Happiness, the companion of
content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of
external things. I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to
make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full
resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure
in a path strewed with briars and thorns." This was good counsel, my
young friends, and I hope you will bear it with you through life. It will
serve to comfort you as much as it did Squire Boone.

To be idle, was to allow time for this melancholy, and Daniel Boone kept
his brother constantly busy. The Indians, they were certain, knew where
their present camp was, and therefore they resolved to make another.
After choosing their spot, they employed themselves industriously in
erecting another cabin, which might serve to shelter them through the
coming winter. This being finished, they went to their old sport,
wandering through the woods, admiring the country, and bringing down now
and then a buffalo or a deer with their rifles. At night, they would
return to their camp, raise a fire, cook their supper, and sit till long
after midnight, talking of their old home on the Yadkin. Squire forgot
his loneliness, and became quite satisfied. In this way time rolled off
until the winter had passed away, and spring appeared. Strangely enough,
they had been undisturbed; they had met not even with one Indian.

They had learned in the wilderness to dispense well nigh with all
comforts; food and sleep were all they expected. But their powder and
shot were now beginning to run low, and without these they could not long
procure food. It was necessary, therefore, to make some arrangement
whereby they might obtain a fresh supply. Their plan was soon settled:
Squire Boone was to go back to North Carolina, and return with
ammunition. They supposed horses would be valuable, also, and he was
likewise to bring with him two of these. Perilous as the plan was, Squire
agreed to bear his part in it, and Daniel as cheerfully consented to his.
Accordingly, on the first day of May, Squire set off for the Yadkin;
and, as if nothing was to be wanting to leave Daniel in perfect
loneliness, their only dog followed Squire as he started.

Here, then, Daniel Boone was left entirely alone. Here he was a sort of
Robinson Crusoe in the wilderness--with this difference, that Robinson
was shipwrecked, and had no choice; while Boo