An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ssachusetts for two years and a half, where I became initiated in a.\(.\t; days and \\kiTi;Rs. \H forestry and the ways of the woods, and learned the tricks and manners of farmanimals. I could manage the horses and cows and sheep all right, because Igained their confidence. The same bay mare who slung my uncle across thestable with her teeth would let me tangle myself up with her legs and hoistwith my back against her belly while I was grooming her; and the little cowallowed nic
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ssachusetts for two years and a half, where I became initiated in a.\(.\t; days and \\kiTi;Rs. \H forestry and the ways of the woods, and learned the tricks and manners of farmanimals. I could manage the horses and cows and sheep all right, because Igained their confidence. The same bay mare who slung my uncle across thestable with her teeth would let me tangle myself up with her legs and hoistwith my back against her belly while I was grooming her; and the little cowallowed nic to shoot off my smi lictwccn her horns, standing in front of her,and not flinch. Later I was taken from Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven and sentto Framington, Conn., where I could have a boat and gun and shoot muskratson the overflows of the river. From Yale College, which was too artificial formy taste, I went to Amherst, where I could range Mt. Holyoke and Mt. Tomand pick up rocks and minerals for my cabinets. And so it went until I grad-uated, married, and went into business. I was of S1K.\KI.\G S.\LM().\ TIIF. RKSTIGOUCHE. Mr. Ilallock fished for snlmon on this river half a century ago. But these responsibilities hardly checked my vagabond proclivities. I com-menced to go west of the Mississippi early in the fifties, and there I first heard of KitCarson, Fremont and Jesse, Pierre Choteau, Jim Beckworth, Jim Bridges, Bill Bent,and Charley Bent, his half-breed son. I read up Ruxtons Life in the FarWest in 1846 and W. C. Primes Owl Creek Cabin Letters, and Old Houseby the River, Lanmans Wilds of America, and Rev. John Todds LongLake and Chas. W. Webbers Romance of Natural History (in Texas),and Col. Emorys Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego,Cal., during the Mexican War. All these were contemporary writings, and it wasnot long before my old schoolday companion. Bob Stiles, and I came to be intro-duced to some of the real characters. Bob wa
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