Page 5 - G-Gold to Lead

For this family, life seemed particularly hard. Food was scarce and they were very isolated and frequently lonely. The children had few toys and even fewer friends. The young father often remarked to himself that this life seemed much too hard, out in this wilderness. He told his wife that perhaps he should move to town with his family and learn a skill to get a job.
This story takes place one day when he was on a hunting trip. He had been gone many days with no success. In fact, he had used up all of the round musket balls used in his old rifle.
Even though he still had plenty of gunpowder, the weapon was of little value now. As he walked along the bank of a creek, he was sad about his bad luck and his tough life, “No bullets, no food, no future,” he said to himself.
Just then he heard a wagon crossing a bridge further up the creek. He looked up just in time to see a wheel come off the old wagon and the driver fall out of the wagon into the creek. The man from the wagon was yelling for help as he was swept down the swiftly running creek.
The Young Man thought about jumping in to save the man but thought, “This is a very swift creek and I might drown trying to save this stranger.”
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