CHAPTER VL 



A r A R 31 E It's LIFE IN THE WOODS. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



My comrade attacked by ague Removal to a new locality Snakes 

 in the woods Grinding corn "Lying" Bulircns Repented 

 attacks of ague Sassafras tree "An epileptic breakfast" 

 Night in the forest The panther Visit to Hilger Shooting 

 by torchlight A distillery A backwoods politician Clear- 

 ings New farm Illness, and want of medical aid Negro 

 children Two American speculators Bad characters in Ar- 

 kansas Removal to a new farm at Oiltrove bottom White 

 river A gallant buffalo hunter Home-sickness Unhealthy 

 swamps Bear-hunting in companies. 



Ox the 8th of July, I had killed a fawn. The flesh 

 was very delieate, and we had made a hearty feast on 

 it, when Ulil complained of headache and sickness, 

 and though he had frequently boasted of his sound 

 constitution, and maintained that he should never be 

 ill, he began to feel some doubts on the subject. Next 

 day' he was very ill, and on the third, about noon, his 

 sickness declared itself as a regular attack of ague. I 

 did all I could to relieve him, but in our loneliness we 

 had little to comfort an invalid. Towards evening he 

 got better, and longed for some, blackberries. I took 

 a tin dish, and went to a place, about eighty paces 

 from our house, where they grew in quantities; there 

 had formerly been a field here, and the thorns grew 

 thick about the overthrown trees. ] was plucking 



(150) 



