Davy rode in the wagon for a few days, but he felt the wagon was going much to slow and began to grow impatient. Davy decided he could get there faster by going by foot, so he thanked the wagoner, and started home on foot. He walked for many miles and days, and he grew hungry and weak. Lucky for Davy, he met up with a man on a horse. The horse rider saw Davy's unfortu!.
nate condition, and told Davy he could ride along a ways on his extra horse. Davy gratefully excepted his offer, and he rode on the horse for many miles, but then it was time for the man to take a different route. By then Davy was rested up, so he continued on his way. He walked only fifteen more miles and he was finally home by the year 1799.
A short time after Davy returned home, he was to go to school. At school there was a bully named Angus McGruffy. He was two years older than Davy. Everyday Angus picked on the kids and stole their lunches. One day Angus told Davy that it was his turn to get a whopping from him, as he did to all new kids to the school house to make sure they knew who was boss. Angus told Davy to meet him on the top of a wooded hill the next day so they could fight where the school house teacher, Mr. (Ben) Kitchen wouldn't see them. So the next day Davy met the bully at the spot. The other school children gathered around to watch them fight. They all were sure that Angus would win, for no one had ever won against Angus before. Davy and Angus started to fight and it was a very close fight all the way until the end where Davy was on top of the badly beaten up Angus threatening to bash in his skull with a rock, so angus cried uncle and Davy had one the fight. When Davy was walking home from the sch!.
ool house after the fight with his older siblings, he made them promise not to tell their father about what happened, and they agreed. That night Davy thought about what had happened, and came to the conclusion that if he went back to school the next day, Mr.