CHAPTER VIII.

FARMING AT FOURCHE LE FAVE--A BACKWOODS “FROLIC”--RESIDENCE AT KELFER’S FARM--SCHOOLS--HUNTING EXCURSION.

Partnership with Rutkin--Removing Goods by Canoe--Scalding Pigs “Arkansas Fashion”--Shooting Deer by Night--Disagreement with Rutkin--A Backwoods “Frolic”--Relays of Fiddlers--Chasing a Wolf with a Canoe--Another Shooting Excursion--The Sessions in the Backwoods--An inconvenient Court-house--Departure from Kelfer’s Farm--Road-making in the Backwoods--Visit to Bahrens--Habitual Reserve of the Americans--Mechanical Ingenuity of Backwoodsmen--An Indian Adventure--Raccoon-shooting--Bee-hunting in the Backwoods--Duck-shooting--Curly the Settler--A Prize--Curly’s Mishap--An Unpleasant Nocturnal Visitor--Shooting a Panther--Return to Slowtrap’s.....210--257