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severest hardship the finding liis claret sour or 

 being compelled twice in one day to eat of the same 

 kind of game, he was now seized with a sporting 

 mania, and determined to rough it in the woods. 

 An unsafe companion, perhaps, the reader may 

 think; but it is not always the roughest men who 

 have the most pluck, nor those accustomed to the 

 commonest fare who grumble the least when oifered 

 still coarser, and there is truth in the words of wor- 

 thy Tom Draw : " Give me a raal gentleman, one 

 as sleeps soft and eats high, and drinks highest 

 kind, to stand roughing it." 



So we discussed matters over a comfortable din- 

 ner, with the aid of a couple of bottles of claret, 

 one of champagne, and a little brandy ; and Don 

 concluded he would as lief eat salt pork as wood- 

 cock, and ship biscuit as French rolls. He was 

 anxious to examine my list of camp articles, and was 

 quite ready to do away with a large part of them ; 

 but finally determined to leave that matter to me, 

 holding me strictly responsible for carrying any 

 unnecessary effeminate luxuries. The discussion 

 was not a short one, but this happy decision being 

 arrived at, I was perfectly satisfied. 



We met by appointment a few days later at a 

 leading house, in that thriving, active city of Cleve- 

 land, which seems to be drawing to itself the busi- 

 ness of the other cities of Lake Erie, and, cannibal- 

 like, to be growing fat on their exhausted lives. It 

 is a thoroughly American city, and, like all our 

 cities, doubtless has the handsomest street in 



