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128 LETTER FROM AMERICA.
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Camping Out. Of Dearest My Tent, M Thoug...
this from little my journal log-house ; " After with our its long day ' t iny journey wooden we reac rooms hed
giving one a feeling , of living queer in boxes , smelling sweetly , of timberfor there is not a thinin the houset
the cookin , g utensils , that is not made g of wood . We , excep bring ne are ws therefore from ' Aunt welcome Poll guests y' ( our . las Throug t nig h ht ' t he res open ting door place of ) and the
room in which I sit , I see our kitchen with its dark rafters and walls of all , on kinds which . At han the g g bi uns , st and ove fishing the woman -tackle of , and the lace ting a
gear shrewd , clear-eyed , but somewh g at nasal "Verononter , is cooking p , supper , in the perpetual sunbonnet—pork , eggs , venison , hot
and or cakes pacing the and 1 gentl milk abou emen . t just The are rest outside arrang of the and ing par abou looking ty are t guns in at t , boa the fron t lovel s , t & c , t chen for w , ,
and hunting I sit expedition in this littl after e room it is full dark , of whil lovel e su y pper golden is preparing sunshine , .
After supper , nine o'clock—Mr . B and his guide Alonzo going Weathertz with them are going The out boat c floating will be , ' as in it half is called hour , and I This am
6 floating' means . going out at night up , and from an a boat . lighted blanternsshooting the deer that come down to the lake side
y , the to drink en . tlemen I am now t waiting he guides for are the s mokin gnal to g * the et read bi y , while tchen
and seeing g to the guns . The great Guich lake g lies just g outside , and Yenus is shining gloriously over the mountain top , and
are shedding the drolles a long t li line ttle of laces glory just over like the the water ic . tures Our rooms has seen here
p , p of struc dungeons ted of —ten h hewn feet s w quare ood b . A the home sons -made of the bedstead houseand , con -
wooden bench roug with a stone pit cher and washing materials , , are all the room containsbut the nice wood smell is healthand
; y pure mean . s unfra ' Snud grant ges ' . Throug all round the op the en door house I , and see t he guides by no
hunting and the t sitting wo Carey at their sons , who have at the just bi come long in table from a day Fine ' s
handsome Weathertz , fel or l L ona t s he h y i supper s are fam , es iliarl pecial cal ly led g . ' guide , . Alonzo
, , y wai B t ed t now till eleven I must descr ' clock ibe when our u the floa moon ting " set expedition and with . We the
pole guides we _cany wound ing the dow jack n throug , or open h the wooden woods lantern till , we reached fixed on the a ,
lake , shore . Here we embarked in our boatsMr . C . at the bow with the and the jackPreston in the , stem to paddle
and I on the gun middle seat . The , boat steered off from the ,
most beach perfect and sli silence d among . The the paddle lilies into made the no darkness sound , we and glided the
128 Letter From America.
128 LETTER FROM AMERICA .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/56/
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