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passage between them open to north and south, a nice 

 cool place to eat or sleep in during summer. Like nW 

 block-houses of this sort, it was roofed with rough four- 

 feet planks ; there were no windows, but in each house 

 a good fireplace of clay. A field of about five acres 

 Avas in front of tlie house, planted with Indian corn, 

 excepting a small portion which was planted with 

 wheat. Southwest from the house stood the stable, 

 which S. was obliged to build, because he gave " good 

 accommodation to man and horse ; " otherwise it is not 

 much the custom in Arkansas to trouble one's self 

 about stables. A place, called a "lot," with a high 

 fence, is used for the horses, hollowed trees serving 

 for mangers. Near at hand was a smaller log-house 

 for the store of Indian corn, and a couple of hundred 

 paces further was a mill which S. had built to grind 

 such corn as he wanted for his own use, and which was 

 worked by one horse. 



About a quarter of a mile from the house, through 

 the wood, there was another field of about five acres, 

 also sown with maize. The river FAnguille flowed 

 close in the rear of the house ; another small building 

 at the back of the dwellins: was used as a smokinfi^ 

 house ; near it was a well about thirty-two feet deep. 



We went out shooting and wandering through the 

 woods all day long, though with little sport. Uhl had 

 had better luck than I, so being firmly resolved to 

 bring home something, I had been straying in the forest 

 from daybreak, when at last I saw a deer. Firing too 

 eagerly I took bad aim, and he fled with long bounds 

 to the thicket; but red marks on the leaves showed 

 that he Avas hit. I followed the trail ; — but Avithout a 

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