362 SPORTING ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST. 



soon produces a strong effect, and leaves a person the next 

 morning with a splitting headache, should he exceed the 

 most moderate bounds. 



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When the dancing-party dispersed in the morning, few 

 there were who did not look thoroughly fagged out, yet all 

 were delighted with their night of pleasure. 



I left the neighborhood shortly afterward ; and though it 

 is many a day since I was there, few trips that I have made 

 in the West are so distinctly marked in my memory as the 

 fortnight I spent in the forests of Washington Territory 

 and my tarry among its hospitable inhabitants. 



