An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ugh a good bit of experience that summer; struck a rainy spelland a freshet in the Sauk River in July; lost all our provisions and part of ourcamp stuff in attempting to cross a ford, swamped the wagon in eight feet ofwater, half drowned the horses, lived five days on raw salt pork and water- FlSIIlXf; TATXTS AND ASSDCIATFS. 2H soaked crackers because we liad no dry powder, nor matches, nor any fuel tocook with ; hadnt a dry stitch of clothing or bedding all that time, and didntmeet
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ugh a good bit of experience that summer; struck a rainy spelland a freshet in the Sauk River in July; lost all our provisions and part of ourcamp stuff in attempting to cross a ford, swamped the wagon in eight feet ofwater, half drowned the horses, lived five days on raw salt pork and water- FlSIIlXf; TATXTS AND ASSDCIATFS. 2H soaked crackers because we liad no dry powder, nor matches, nor any fuel tocook with ; hadnt a dry stitch of clothing or bedding all that time, and didntmeet a living soul outside of mosquitoes. We got up as far as Fort Ripley ina bad plight, and the soldiers 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 greatexplorer and made guest of honor at John B. Drakes fourth annual game dinner,given at the Briggs House. This was in 1858. At that early date migrants from the Fast had not begun to meet up withincomers from the West. The tide was still westward, Chicago was in .\X1) T( !K.^ AT ^ .\l< ).\ t A.\ A. Her streets were higgledy-piggledy, three steps up and \\\o down, here a rise andthere a level. Grade had not been establislied ; and when I appeared in town inmy soiled and weather-stained prairie costume, the townspeople who had neverbeen any further West took me for a sort of Kit Carson, a Pathfinder, and theenterprising Mr. Drake presented me to his table guests en grande tenue, just asI was. Subsequently this genial landlord opened the Grand Pacific Hotel, andran it for thirty years, keeping up the game dinners all the while until he died,and the hotel was replaced by a skyscraper. I happen to have kept the menucard of liis twenty-first dinner, at whicli I was also present, and reproduce it 24 AN ANGLERS REMIN[SCENCES. here. It is interesting to sportsmen to show how abundant game was eventhen. It certain
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