. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 462 AUDUBON hurrahs. One of them, who was particularly expert, was very fortunate, and snuffed the candle three times out of seven whilst all the other shots either put out the candle or cut â <â immediately under the light. Of the feats performed by the Kentuckians with the rifle, I C(mld say more than might be expedient on the present occasion. In every thinly peopled portion of the State, it is rare to meet one without a gun of that descrip- tion, as well as a tomahawk. By way of recreation, they often cut
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 462 AUDUBON hurrahs. One of them, who was particularly expert, was very fortunate, and snuffed the candle three times out of seven whilst all the other shots either put out the candle or cut â <â immediately under the light. Of the feats performed by the Kentuckians with the rifle, I C(mld say more than might be expedient on the present occasion. In every thinly peopled portion of the State, it is rare to meet one without a gun of that descrip- tion, as well as a tomahawk. By way of recreation, they often cut off a piece of the bark of a tree, make a target of it, using a little powder wetted with water or saliva, for the bull's-eye, and shoot into the mark all the balls they have about them, picking them out of the wood again. After what I have said, you may easily imagine with what ease a Kentuckian procures game, or despatches an enemy, more especially when I tell you that every one in the State is accustomed to handle the rifle from the time when he is first able to shoulder it until near the close of his career. That murderous weapon is the means of pro- curing them subsistence during all their wild and extensive rambles, and is the source of their principal sports and pleasures. THE TRAVELLER AND THE POLE-CAT On a journey from Louisville to Henderson in Kentucky, performed during very severe winter weather, in company with a foreigner, the initials of whose name are D. T., my companion, spying a beautiful animal, marked with black and pale yellow, and having a long and bushy tail, ex- claimed, " Mr. Audubon, is not that a beautiful Squirrel? " " Yes," I answered, " and of a kind that will suffer you to approach it and lay hold of it, if you are well ; Mr. D. T., dismounting, took up a dry stick, and advanced towards the pretty animal, with his large cloak floating in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t
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