The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-03

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Fanny More:
l.. THE FEMALE HUNTER OF THE WEST
| The father OF the singular heroine we are about
| 70 sketch was backwoodsman. Her mother died
| while she was an infant and when she arrived at
the age Of hteen her father also died, leaving her
poor, friendess orphan. II is not surprising then
/ at this tender age, she married Missouri hunter
| ian acquaintance Of her deceased fatherA double
her years as to age, but just her equal poverty
Her whole fortune was composed Of one cow, an
| old eather-bed rusty frying-pan a broken set OF
| tea cups and saucers, ditto of knives and forks
| with horn handles, two large pewter plates, and
/ wooden bowl Of Indian manufacture. Such was the
| legacy bequeathed by her surviving parent. Her
| husoands wealth might mate well enough with
sucha portion brought into matrimonial partnership
/ by his wife. black bobtailed pony, large wolf
| dog, and long heavy rifle. constituted the sum
total OF his goods and chatels So far the nuplial
contract might seem fair, without extravagant odds
/ on either side There were other Considerations,
however, which made the bargain, one might say
fraudulendy unequal. She was a pretty, rosy.
checked, ruby Tipped, healthy lass, with sky blue
/ eyes, golden rnglets, and CHEEKY laugh slender
in form, but of wiry elasticity and constitution of
/ the most tenacious vitality He, on the contrary,
was pale, lean, hungry Looking hypochondfiac,
| VINO might be supposed from the wry faces he dis
played, when forced to any exeriion Of his limbs in
profitable labor, to regard work objectionable
sin. The entreaties and example Of his young
wlte 1t IS true did, for while, stimulate him to
just sufficient effort in the way OF deer hunting to
'keen them from starv;nsy 'Ths so,nIa ths,, E,sd
lin western Missouri Fanny with he, n,,, dsl;es,s
Ebands cleared ont md rutvated a ANAL feld snd
managed her domestic economy with so much
thew began to accumulate sIo,vIv
L But an event occurred in ,6c s;x,b year of their
wedlock. that changed the nresent current If NJ
i fairs. and startled her IN her Wild scbemes
great revival" under the guidance Of the " Cum
| II seems that on Sunday the Cumberlapder dis.
cussed this passage OF Scripture Take no though,
| for the morrow" etc Tom syeaIlowed the tex 4
but rejected the comment and misinterpreting the
sentence literally came 70 lhe deliberate co1cl,,-
sion that it was sinful to provide for the wauts
/ of the wicked BODY" and resolved 10 aet ac-
| cordinqly.
1t was in vain that the industrious wife debated
| with the theolou;caI snopse Har tears .rouments
and remonstra6oes an ended Allie IL b;S nsrsl
spasm of jerking but as to aAy other sort of eyer
| ton he would not budge peoS
Fanny's case was now critical in the extreme
for strange to saw she still loved her husband with
1 a love that, in spite OF every imaginable damner
coatinued to burn on ardentiy in her sffectio5ate
heart till death. Hence she could not make up her
mind to- leave him. Beside. thew had now five
hi'drenJ and il was absolutely impossible 10 sun
port family ON the produce Of their patry stony
farm. In this emergency. that weak vvoraan sud
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purpose which the annals of the world cannot sur.
| pass. With indefatipable patience. she practice.
and learned to shoot till no marksman in ali Mis-
souri was her match, and then, as solitary hunt
ress, took to the forest and soon supplied her hus
band and children with choice abundance Of meal
II is not recorded Of More that he maElfes ed an
/ aversion toward the venison feasts which his bette
half provided with much labor, however muc
he had been opposed to the of such yorlal,
means HIMSELF as the expenditure of one needfu
Il thOnuht he mar
The wild region of Missouri at last settled up
Sunny fields, waving with golden grain, stood il
the place of the old green woods which had fur
nlshed shelter and sustenance for the caprieiou
| game. The buffalo fed farther off deeper into thu
grand prairies, nearer to the Rocky Mountains
The moonbeams fell broad and bright on the opeI
bottoms where the brown bears used to nestl,
among the matted canes. The red deer had beer
scared away by the sharp sound of Collinss axes
Ii became necessary that Fanny should move
She sold her slender T" improvement" on the banks
OF the silver Usage, for cart yoke of oxen, and
| spall sum OF ready money and loading the crazy
vehicle with her six children and "jerkerp believ.
ing Tom, she started for Arkansas In this new
country, then territory, she selected locality
fifty miles from any settlement. Here wild AMI
mails roamed in the greatest plenty and her rude
board table groaned beneath Ito them heaps o
. savory Injuries This wonder Of wife now added
: rapidly to Their humble property. Her careworn,
wasted figure grew rounder; her step, as she sad
. | bllther by which she summoned her wolfdog I,
the hunting foray. Even the laugh sometimes
rang out as IN the merry thougttless hours Of he
early YOUTH loud, long and clear as the sweet tone
E OF bell-metal.
One thought OF most gloomy character alon'
disturbed the calm How OF her joyous reflections
! Her chlldreS were growing upwith the rapidiy 0
hasty summer weeds and utterly without education
or even the prospect OF any opportunity to obtain il
: Ihe idea haunted her day and night She turned
It over IN her m'nd IN every conceivable way, ba
sun could ma no solution for the torturlng prob
lem, She had learned TO spell, when child, at 81
cf@ hetd schooi1that IS to say she had gone as ia
IN Dilworth as three syilables, which, by the way
was nearly the extent OF aer lame teachers accu
rate information IN the pedagogmcai ART. put her
memory had long ago los, IN the inverse Iao o. It's
3 acquisitions M she couid scarcely oe sad 20 know
her letters often ald she bitterly regret her ide-
ness tne early ana eAcai, as she
d tondly kissed heI ehlioTea on returning az night
3 from the toIsome hunt- nag only learned 70
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