Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . had both, conveyed in lucid Eng-lish, often becoming elegant through an amplevocabulary, apt similes and historical allusionsthat were the fruit of wide reading and variedresearch. In certain of its aspects the volume reads asif, instead of having been written sixty-five yearsago, it were the narrative of a much earlier date,because of the primitive life it depicts. The modeof travel from Chicago was by lumber wagon,loaded, says the author, with everything wemight want, in case nobody would give it to us—for buying and selling were no longer to becounted o
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . had both, conveyed in lucid Eng-lish, often becoming elegant through an amplevocabulary, apt similes and historical allusionsthat were the fruit of wide reading and variedresearch. In certain of its aspects the volume reads asif, instead of having been written sixty-five yearsago, it were the narrative of a much earlier date,because of the primitive life it depicts. The modeof travel from Chicago was by lumber wagon,loaded, says the author, with everything wemight want, in case nobody would give it to us—for buying and selling were no longer to becounted on. The first evening found them atGeneva, where they remained Saturday and Sun-day, and where they heard, with his attentiveand affectionate congregation, the Unitarianclergyman, a form of church services commonin New England, but which it surprises one tolearn was found anywhere in Illinois at thetime; then proceeding by Rosss Grove to PawPaw Grove,_consuming several days, and spend-int: one afternoon and night at the house of an. HISTORY OF OGLE COUNTY. 707 Englishman, where the young ladies were mus-ical and spoke French fluently, having been edu-cated in a convent. At the latter grove theyput up at the tavern. Their experience is re-counted thus: That night we rested, or rathertarried, at Paw Paw Grove, and there partookof the miseries, so often jocosely portrayed, ofbedchambers for twelve, a milk dish for univer-sal hand basin, and expectations that you woulduse and lend your hankercher for a towel. Butthis was the only night, thanks to the hospital-its of private families, that we passed thus. .We ladies were to sleep in the bar-room, fromwhich its drinking visitors could be ejected onlyat a late hour. . We had also rather hardcouches (mine was the supper table) ; but wewere altogether too much fatigued to stand upontrifles, and slept as sweetly as we would in thebigly bower of any baroness. • The narrative then continues as follows: Inthe afternoon we reached the Roc
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