330 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



HER GUN AND HER BOOK, 



and she was seldom without one or both in her 

 hands. Upon this particular night she had taken 

 her volume of Browning to bed with her. Being 

 awakened by the commotion caused by the arrival 

 of the visitors she sat up in bed until her feet were 

 cold, then she replaced the stone at her feet and 

 suffered no more with the cold but slept peacefully 

 until morning only to find upon arising that the 

 stone was on the floor and her feet had been 

 warmed all night by the fervid poetry of Brown- 

 ing. 



She told of this at breakfast, and we all had a 

 good laugh, especially did the new arrivals enjoy 

 the joke, and they said many things about mind 

 cure for cold feet and the power of imagination; 

 but their turn came next, although they did not 

 tell the story upon themselves. 



A Pike County farmer had presented to us a 

 number of large turnips; they were of monstrous 

 growth, and I really do not know what our friend 

 expected us to do with them; they were as fit for 

 food as pine knots soaked in water might be. 

 When the two sportsmen guests, with a native 

 driver, had gone for their baggage we took the 

 turnips and with some wooden toothpicks, we fas- 

 tened the skins of_ruffed grouse over the vegeta- 

 bles, and when there were no tail feathers on the 

 grouse skin we used rabbits' tails pegged to the 

 proper place as substitutes. For heads we took some 

 fish heads which had been cut from the largest 



