. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 11 '.PISODES 209 the houses were, we fortunately found one empty. It was a log cabin, not a log house; but as better could not be had, we were pleased. Well, then, we were located. The country around was thinly peopled, and all purchas- able provisions rather scarce; but our neighbors were friendly, and we had brought with us flour and bacon- hams. Our pleasures were those of young people not long married, and full of life and merriment; a single smile from our infant was, I assure you, more valued by us than al
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 11 '.PISODES 209 the houses were, we fortunately found one empty. It was a log cabin, not a log house; but as better could not be had, we were pleased. Well, then, we were located. The country around was thinly peopled, and all purchas- able provisions rather scarce; but our neighbors were friendly, and we had brought with us flour and bacon- hams. Our pleasures were those of young people not long married, and full of life and merriment; a single smile from our infant was, I assure you, more valued by us than all the treasure of a modern Ctoesus would have been. The woods were amply stocked with game, the river with tish; and now and then the hoarded sweets of the industrious bees were brought from some hollow tree to our little table. Our child's cradle was our richest piece of furniture, our guns and fishing-lines our most serviceable implements, for although we began to culti- vate a garden, the rankness of the soil kept the seeds we planted far beneath the tall weeds that sprung up the first year. I had then a partner, a "man of business," and there was also with me a Kentucky youth, who much pre- ferred the sports of the forest and river to either day-book or ledger. He was naturally, as I may say, a good woods- man, hunter, and angler, and, like me, thought chiefly of procuring supplies of fish and fowl. To the task accord- ingly we directed all our energies. Quantity as well as quality was an object with us, and although we well knew that three species of catfish ex- isted in the Ohio, and that all were suflficiently good, we were not sure as to the best method of securing them. We determined, however, to work on a large scale, and immediately commenced making a famous "; Now, reader, as you may probably know nothing about this engine, I shall describe it to you. A trot-line is one of considerable length and thickness, both qualities, however, vary
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