THE HK; hear of ARKANSAS. Tf) 



and good-natured to .simplicity. Then liis perfect con- 

 fidence in himself was irresistibly droll. 



" Prehaps," said he, " gentlemen," running on without 

 a person interrupting, " prehaps you have been to New 

 Orleans often ; I never made tlie first visit before, and 

 I don't intend to make another in a crow's life. I am 

 thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact. 

 Some of the gentlemen thar called me green — well, pre- 

 haps I am, said I, but I arnH so at home ; and if I aint 

 oflf my trail much, the heads of them perlite chaps them- 

 selves wern't much the hardest ; for according to my 

 notion, they were real know-nothings, green as a pump- 

 kin-vine — couldn't, in farming, I'll bet, raise a crop of 

 turnips ; and as for shooting, they'd miss a barn if the 

 door was swinging, and that, too, with the best rifle in 

 the country. And then they talked to me 'bout hunt- 

 ing, and laughed at my calling the principal game in 

 Arkausaw poker, and high-low-jack. 



'• ' Prehaps,' said I, 'you prefer checkers and roulette;' 

 at this they laughed harder than ever, and asked me if 

 I lived in the woods, and didn't know what game was ? 



" At this, I rather think / laughed. 



" * Yes,' I roared, and says, I, ' Strangers, if you'd 

 asked me how wc got our meat in Arkansaw, I'd a told 

 you at once, and given you a list of varmints that would 

 make a caravan, beginning with the bar, and ending oflf 

 with the cat; that's ment though, not game. 



" Game, indeed, — that's what city folks c:ill it ; and 



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