. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 28o AUDUBON. I HI â HOSPITALITY IN THE WOODS Hospitality is a virtue the exercise of which, although ahvays agreeable to the stranger, is not always duly appreciated. The traveller who has acquired celebrity is not unfrequently received with a species of hospi- tality which is much alloyed by the obvious attention of the host to his own interest; and the favor con- ferred upon the stranger must have less weight when it comes mingled with almost interminable questions as to h'j perilous adventures. Another receiv
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 28o AUDUBON. I HI â HOSPITALITY IN THE WOODS Hospitality is a virtue the exercise of which, although ahvays agreeable to the stranger, is not always duly appreciated. The traveller who has acquired celebrity is not unfrequently received with a species of hospi- tality which is much alloyed by the obvious attention of the host to his own interest; and the favor con- ferred upon the stranger must have less weight when it comes mingled with almost interminable questions as to h'j perilous adventures. Another receives hospitality at the hands of persons who, possessed of all the comforts of life, receive the way-worn wanderer with pomposity, lead him from one part of their spacious mansion to another, and bidding him good-night, leave him to amuse himself in his solitary apartment, because he is thought unfit to be presented to a party of friends. A third stumbles on a congenial spirit, who receives him with open arms, offers him servants, horses, perhaps even his purse, to enable him to pursue his journey, and parts from him with regret. In all these cases the traveller feels more or less under obligation, and is accordingly grateful. But, kind reader, the hospitality received from the inhabitant of the forest, who can offer only the shelter of his humble roof and the refreshment of his homely fare, remains more deeply impressed on the memory of the bewildered traveller than any other. This kind of hospitality I have myself frequently experienced in our woods, and now proceed to relate an instance of it. I had walked several hundred miles, accompanied by my son, then a stripling, and, coming upon a clear stream, observed a house on the opposite shore. We crossed in a canoe, and finding that we had arrived at a tavern, deter- mined upoii spending the night there. As we were both greatly fatigued, I made an arrangement with our host to be. Please note that these images are extracted from
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