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trip. It was not violent, and had none of those 

 terrible characteristics of similar phenomena in 

 southern latitudes, and even in our regions would 

 have been considered a tame affair. 



As, however, it drove us within the tent, and gave 

 us a little unemployed leisure, my attention was 

 attracted to Don's baggage, which consisted of an 

 incongruous assortment that would hardly have been 

 thought of by any other amateur backwoodsman, 

 and would certainly have astounded a professional. 

 Of course there were abundant clothes of various 

 colors and kinds, of which a buckskin under-jacket 

 suitable for severe winter weather, but hardly 

 necessary in a summer-trip, and a handsome dressing- 

 gown, were prominent articles; also his shaving 

 materials, very neat and elegant, that were not used 

 till he returned; a thermometer that kept us in- 

 formed as to the amount of suffering we were 

 entitled to feel from the condition of the weather ; 

 a picture of his two extremely pretty children, set in 

 a passe-partout frame, with a glass over it that was 

 in daily danger of destruction, a bundle of tooth- 

 picks that would have lasted us both a year, a new 

 and effective patent portable boot-jack, a clothes- 

 brush and whisp, a bottle of eau de cologne, a pair 

 of flesh-brushes, and many other things that might 

 be classed as "odds and ends." 



Most of these articles were jumbled together in a 

 large water-proof bag, from which he was never 

 known to be able to obtain any specific article with- 

 out emptying the whole on the floor ; but the pic- 



