CHAPTER 



WOODLAND SPOUTS - CANE-BRAKES - MY EXAMINA- 

 TION BY THE SCHOOL COMMISSION. 



Turkey hunting with dogs American aptitude for barter Hard 

 life in the woods Ague Wolves Unhousing a bear 

 Number of widows in the swamps Postal system in the back 

 states Comfortable quarters My musical propensities Tho 

 Mississippi at Memphis Cincinnati and its German inhabitants 

 Our pill-box manufactory My speculations in reeds Dem- 

 ocrats in America The candidates for schoolmastership My 

 examination Another cane trip Buffalo shooting. 



THE weather became Averse every clay. The cold 

 north wind blew furiously through the lealless boughs of 

 the gigantic trees. All crowded together round the 

 warm hearth, and the European began to long for the 

 solid walls and warm rooms of his native land ; for 

 the wind blows, on all sides, through the crevices of 

 the American block-houses ; and as they are without 

 windows, the door must be left open the livelong day 

 to admit the necessary light. Thus it may be imagined, 

 that in spite of the enormous far, the temperature is 

 not even moderate. In addition, we had nothing to 

 cat but bear's flesh, three times a day ; so I put on my 

 thick flannel hunting-shirt, took my rifle, and made up 

 my mind to shoot a turkey, whereat the dogs began 

 bounding and barking for joy. 



Turkey hunting with dogs is one of the most 

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