CHAPTER XXI. 



SHOOTING IN MISSOURI. 



ACCORDING to advice, my friends and self tried Brook- 

 field!, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph's railroad, in the 

 State of Missouri, three years ago, and found the locality 

 as represented. The hotel at the railroad station is well 

 kept, and if the culinary department does not suit its 

 visitors they must be very fastidious. Moreover, there 

 is not a house of public entertainment that I know of, 

 in America, where there is a more evident desire on 

 the part of employer and domestics to do all in their 

 power for the accommodation of their guests, and to 

 render them comfortable. Game, I am assured by those 

 who reside there, is unusually abundant this year 

 (1869), and they attribute as a reason that, during the 

 war, guerillas were so numerous that few had the hardi- 

 hood of risking the loss of their guns, or, possibly, 

 being roughly handled, whatever their love of field 

 sports might have been, so that little shooting 



