CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER VI. 



A farmer's life in the woods (continued). 



A. Wolf— We shift our Quarters — False Alarm — Squirrel for 

 Breakfast — Primitive Mode of Winnowing Corn — " Oiltrove 

 Bottom " — Pawpaw Trees — " Not at home " — Hard Fare — A 

 Panther — Visit to Hilger — A Great Political Discussion — Clear- 

 ing Land for Fields- Ague — Prompt Burial in the Swamps — 

 A Backwoods Family — Swindlers in Arkansas — White River 

 and its Neighborhood— Magnus, the Great Buffalo Hunter— A 

 Patient with the Ague — Swamps — Hunting with an unloaded 

 Gun— Death of the Bear 150—181 



CHAPTER VH. 



WOODLAND SPORTS — CANE-BRAKES — MY EXAMINA- 

 TION BY THE SCHOOL COMMISSION. 



Turkey-shooting with Dogs — Forest Travel — Scarcity of Provis- 

 ions — Overcup Oak —Buck-hunting —Buffalo-hunting —Return 

 to the Haunts of Men— Bear-hunting with dogs — The Falling 

 Tree- "Shocking bad Dreams " — Ladies in the Forest — Un- 

 employed Hands in Cincinnati — Card-playing in the Cane-brake 



— German Settlers down South — The Great School Examination 



— Speculation in Canes 182—209 



CHAPTER Vin. 



FARMING AT FOURCHE LE FAVE — A BACKWOODS "FROL- 

 IC " RESIDENCE AT KELFER'S FARM — SCHOOLS 



HUNTING EXCURSION. 



Partnership with Rutkin — Removing Goods by Canoe — Scalding 

 Pigs "Arkansas Fashion " — Shooting Deer by Night — Disa- 

 gi-eement with Rutkin — A Backwoods " Frolic " — Relays of 

 Fiddlers — Chasing a Wolf with a Cance — Another Shootmg 



