AUDUBON JOURNAL 



when I sat to Dinner at the Hotel was really justified 

 to me; having not used a fork and Scarcely even a 

 Plate since I left Louisville, I involuntarily took Meet 

 and Vegetables with My fingers several times; on 

 Board the flat Boats We seldom eat together and very 

 often the hungry Cooked, this I perform^ [often] 

 when in need by Plucking & Cleaning a Duck, or a 

 Partridge and throwing it on the Hot embers; few 

 Men have eat a Teal with better appetite than I have 

 dressed in this manner — 



Others prefering Bacon would Cut a SHce from the 

 Side that hung by the Chimney and Chew that raw 

 with a hard Biscuit — Such Life is well intended to 

 drill men Gradually to hardships to go to Sleep with 

 Wet Muddy Clothing on a Buflfalo skin stretch on a 

 Board — to hunt through Woods filled with fallen trees, 

 Entengled with Vines, Briars, Canes, high Rushes and 

 at the same time giving under foot; produces heavy 

 sweats [and] strong Appetite, & Keeps the Imagina- 

 tion free from Worldly thoughts, [and] I Would advise 

 Many Citisens particularly our Eastern Dandys to try 

 the experiment— leaving their high heeled Boots, but 

 not their Corsets, for, this would no doubt [would] be 

 Serviceable whenever food giving way, they might 

 wish to depress their stomacks for the occasion — 



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