CHAPTER XXII. 



FRESHWATER BASS AMERICAN ANGLING PIKE SPEAKERS WAPETI 

 ANTLERS AMERICAN INQUISITIVENESS AND BAREFACED FLATTERY 

 BARNUM'S HOTEL AT ST LOUIS EXTORTIONATE DEMAND OF A 

 FLYMAN THE BLACK BARBER PUBLIC BASINS AMERICAN HOTEL 

 BOYS AMUSING PECULIARITIES RAFTS OF TIMBER LECTURE AT 

 ST LOUIS DR POPE'S PRIVATE ANATOMICAL MUSEUM BEAUTIFUL 

 MINIATURE REYOLYER ASSASSINATION BY A WAISTCOAT-POCKET 

 PISTOL A SHOOTING DIFFICULTY RELIGION IN THE UNITED 



STATES OBLIYION OF SUNDAY GERMANS IN ST LOUIS CONVENT 



OF THE LADIES OF THE SACRED HEART FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH 

 FIELD DAY WITH ITS ENGINES MASTODON REMAINS DR COCK'S 

 REMARKS ON THE COEVAL LIFE OF MAN AND THE MASTODON. 



DURING the voyage from Hanibal to St Louis I had a 

 good deal of conversation with two Americans who had 

 been angling, and who had with them a very good 

 basket of fish, consisting of the freshwater bass (much 

 resembling our perch, but not of such fine hues), which 

 they told me would often run as heavy as. 8lb. They 

 had also the crappe, so pronounced, which was very like 

 our freshwater bream, only not so large, and a freshwater 

 dog-fish, a nasty-looking thing, something like a Salmo 

 ferox out of season as coarse a commodity as ever was 



