An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ckens touched my elbow at Westminster Hotel, in IrvingPlace, while in company with Fayette S. Giles, nineteen years before he wrote uphis American Notes on the Red River in Louisiana. In 1858 I met ex-SenatorHenry M. Rice, of Minnesota, when he was one of three Indian was on his way up to Leech lake and had to stop over night with his friendat the old log hostelry of Mrs. McCarty, on the edge of Wisconsin. She chargedfifty cents each meal and 50 cents for a lodging. The trans
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ckens touched my elbow at Westminster Hotel, in IrvingPlace, while in company with Fayette S. Giles, nineteen years before he wrote uphis American Notes on the Red River in Louisiana. In 1858 I met ex-SenatorHenry M. Rice, of Minnesota, when he was one of three Indian was on his way up to Leech lake and had to stop over night with his friendat the old log hostelry of Mrs. McCarty, on the edge of Wisconsin. She chargedfifty cents each meal and 50 cents for a lodging. The transients asked for bakedpotatoes and boiled eggs, or something you dont handle with your hands. It waeearly dark morning, and the room was lighted with an only candle. She carriedan axe in her hand as she was passing from the woodpile to replenish the fire, andshe replied: Ate yer breakfast, or Ill give ye the contents of this axe. And shewas reported as having killed a female helper in the same way. In 1671, on myreturn from the great lakes of the West, I was given a seat next to Lord Dufferin, (46). COL. A. EGBERT, Contributor to Forest and Stream. MR. \V. M. Editor.
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