On the Kentucky Frontier - James Otis - Bog

It is my purpose to set down what I saw during such time as Simon Kenton gave me my first lessons in woodcraft and it is well to make the statement in advance in order that others may be deprived of the opportunity of saying what would sound disagreeable: -that the pupil was for a time so dull that one less patient and painstaking than Kenton would have brought the lessons to a speedy close