CHAPTER VII, 



THE OHIO UNBEOKEN WOODS THE [SEYENTEEN COWS A WHISTLE 

 IN TIME THE GO-A-HEAD SYSTEM THE TWO EAILWAT SCAMPS 

 WEONG CHANGE A GOOD TEAM THE PLANTER'S HOUSE THE 

 WATCHMAN, AN UNWELCOME YISITOE WHO'S THEEE ? THE EETEEAT 

 A PLEASANT ACQUAINTANCE GEOEGE AND THE MOSQUITOES THE 

 TUENING SPOT DANGEES OF THE WAT THE YEET YOUNG MAN 

 SPEINGFIELD AND CO. FUNDS LOW THE MOMENTOUS QUESTION. 



ON Monday morning, the 13th of September, I left 

 Cincinnati by train, attended by a very civil conductor, 

 and, with my dogs, got very comfortably located in his 

 car. For some distance the Ohio river continued on our 

 left, and then fine undulating land, with very good crops 

 of corn, appeared on either side, the woodlands becoming 

 more and more thickly interspersed with the settlements 

 as we advanced. The turkey-buzzards seemed in num 

 bers to increase, or to have been collected here and there 

 by some carrion in the woods, for they enlivened the air 

 with their soaring flight, or sat on the dead limbs of the 

 white bare trees, with their wings slightly outspread, as 

 cormorants may be seen to do, to dry their feathers after 



