CONTENTS. 



Excursion — The Sessions in the Backwoods — An inconvenient 

 Court-house — Departure from Kelfer's Farm — Road-making in 

 the Backwoods — Visit to Bahrens — Habitual Reserve of the 

 Americans — I\Iechanical Ingenuity of Backwoodsmen — An In- 

 dian Adventure — Raccoon-shooting — Bee-hunting in the Back- 

 woods — Duck-shooting — Curly the Settler — A Prize — Curly's 

 Mishap — An Unpleasant Nocturnal Visitor — Shooting a Pan- 

 ther— Return to Slowtrap's 210—257 



CHAPTER IX. 



HUNTING ANECDOTES AXD EXPERIENCES — CHRISTMAS 

 — CONWELL AND HIS REMINISCENCES. 



Sui-prised by a Panther — A New Hunting Excursion — The Fox — 

 " Stole Away " — The Two old Cattle-dealers — Bear-hunting 

 Extraordinary — Deer-stalking by Night — Duck-shooting — 

 Thunderstorms in Arkansas — Our Nocturnal Encampment — 

 Indian Migration — A Bootless Chase — Lost in the Forest — Mr. 

 Davis's Farm — Conwell and his Family — Slowtrap's Adventure 

 with the Cow — Terrace-hills — A Prize — A Sumptuous Break- 

 fast — A Two-year-old Bruin — A Comfortable Evening — Indian 

 Stratagem — Simplicity of the Backwoodsmen — Bivouac — Story 

 of the Moccasins — Almost surprised by a Panther — A Novel 

 Sleeping-room — Struggle with a Buck — Story of a Buffalo Hunt 

 — Books in Wet Weather — Manna in the Desert — Marauding 

 "Wolves — Bruin in his Nest — Honey-laden Home . 258 — 311 



CHAPTER X. 



A PERILOUS BEAR-HUNT — A DEBATING SOCIETY — PAN- 

 THER HUNT — DISASTROUS EVENTS — DEATH OF ERS- 

 KINE DEPARTURE. 



Bears in their Winter Quarters — Bruin's Cave — Our Adventure in 

 the Cave — Attack and Retreat — Pursued by a Wounded Bear 

 — Victor\' at last — Another Bruin in his Lair — Backwoods De- 



