Transcription:
4 himself heard ? tears us from all of beauty and sublimity and in a twinkling we find ourselves climbing a stump fence
and wading a dooryard? dressed in all kinds of filth and endeavoring to reach a door flanked with ash- barrel and hog pen,
in lieu? of honeysuckled vestibule ? opposed all the way by a coarse- voiced cur? noisier them ever before in his life If
the visit be successful we may be seen seeking the woods, frequently looking over our shoulders at the bristly cur, and all
for a little dutch gray bread and dutch gray butter. We soon realized the magnitude of the promise ?your bread shall be given
you and your water shall be s illegible e? ? This meal is perhaps finished at noon and we wonder on winding through tangled
glens-over rocky m illegible or following the course of a meadow brook gazing at all times intently on either side for new
plants Perhaps before night we find another meal then tent holes are set up a fire built and after much fun, we prepare for
bed. One day we has but one meal which was at night but this was fully atoned for next day as we had five. When at Pr du Chin
one fine morning looking upon the majestic Mississippi which moved smoothly on as the clear sun gilded its waters we thought
how illegible ing pleasant it would be to place our burdens in a boat and sail merrily to Portage City up the Wisconsin, so?
we purchased a boat and rowed merrily to the mouth of the Wis