CHAPTER VI.

A FARMER’S LIFE IN THE WOODS (_continued_).

A Wolf--We shift our Quarters--False Alarm--Squirrel for Breakfast--Primitive Mode of Winnowing Corn--“Oiltrove Bottom”--Pawpaw Trees--“Not at home”--Hard Fare--A Panther--Visit to Hilger--A Great Political Discussion--Clearing Land for Fields--Ague--Prompt Burial in the Swamps--A Backwoods Family--Swindlers in Arkansas--White River and its Neighborhood--Magnus, the Great Buffalo Hunter--A Patient with the Ague--Swamps--Hunting with an unloaded Gun--Death of the Bear.....150--181