. An angler's reminiscences. Fishing. FISHING JAUNTS AND ANCiLING ASSOCIATES. soaked crackers because we had no dry powdtr, nor matches, nor any fuel to cook with ; hadn't a dry stitch of clothing or bedding all that time, and didn't meet a living soul outside of mosquitoes. We got up as far as Fort Ripley in a bad plight, and the soldie'rs took us in and recruited us—but not for the army! By the time I reached Chicago in the fall, going East, I was exploited as a great explorer and made guest of honor at John B. Drake's fourth annual game dinner, given at the Briggs House. This was in 185
. An angler's reminiscences. Fishing. FISHING JAUNTS AND ANCiLING ASSOCIATES. soaked crackers because we had no dry powdtr, nor matches, nor any fuel to cook with ; hadn't a dry stitch of clothing or bedding all that time, and didn't meet a living soul outside of mosquitoes. We got up as far as Fort Ripley in a bad plight, and the soldie'rs took us in and recruited us—but not for the army! By the time I reached Chicago in the fall, going East, I was exploited as a great explorer and made guest of honor at John B. Drake's fourth annual game dinner, given at the Briggs House. This was in 1858. At that early date migrants' from the East had not begun to meet up with incomers from the W^est. The tide was still westward. Chicago was in FL.\TITE.\nS ) ; .\T KALI Sl'KL, , Her streets were higgledy-piggledy, three steps up and two down, here a rise and there a level. Grade had not been established ; and when I appeared in town in my soiled and weather-stained prairie costume, the townspeople who had never been any further West took me for a sort of Kit Carson, a Pathfinder, and the enterprising Mr. Drake presented me to his table guests en grande tenue, just as I was. Subsequently this genial landlord opened the Grand Pacific Hotel, and ran it for thirty years, keeping up the game dinners all tlie while until he died, and the hotel was replaced by a skyscraper. I happen to have kept the menu card of his twenty-first dinner, at whicli I was also present, and reproduce it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hallock, Charles, 1834- [from old catalog]. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sportsmen's review pub. co.
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