. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . sed us a dinner and a mistress, an excellent woman, received us withcordial hospitality. While her two sons admiringly re-garded our two-barrelled rifles, and we dried our clothea 112 AN HOSPITABLE RECEPTION. before a large fire, a beautiful young girl, tall and slenderas a inaid of Artois, placed upon the table some friedvenison, eggs, milk, and coffee. A glass of whisky in-creased the pleasure of the repast. In this hospitable house we passed the night; an
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . sed us a dinner and a mistress, an excellent woman, received us withcordial hospitality. While her two sons admiringly re-garded our two-barrelled rifles, and we dried our clothea 112 AN HOSPITABLE RECEPTION. before a large fire, a beautiful young girl, tall and slenderas a inaid of Artois, placed upon the table some friedvenison, eggs, milk, and coffee. A glass of whisky in-creased the pleasure of the repast. In this hospitable house we passed the night; andnext day, after breakfast, as our hostess would not acceptany pay, my friend gave her sons a horn full of powder,a precious gift for the pioneers of the western my turn I begged the daughter to accept a new redsilk handkerchief, which I had found at the bottom ofmy knapsack. She appeared delighted with the present. At noon we boarded a steam-boat which ascended theOhio j and the same evening, my friend reconducted meto his fathers house, where we were received as , though no calf was killed for
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