The earth was cut up all around me.

I was terribly frightened, and howled and begged to be freed.
"The other young men, who were sitting laughing at me, thought it such good fun that they got their guns, too.

I never wish to spend such a terrible hour again.

I was sure they would kill me.

I dare say they would have done so, for they were all quite drunk by this time, if something had not happened.
"Poor Bob, who was almost as frightened as I was, and who lay shivering under the wagon, was killed by a shot by his own master, whose hand was the most unsteady of all.