Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
miscellaneous Selections,
AN AMAZON.

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from friend of mino, from this State,
travelling as pedlar in the wild portions
of Delaware and Sullivan counties, New
York. The story is as follows-I give
it in his own words:
81 must relate an adventure that |
met with few days since. As l was
trudging along one afternoon, in the town
of Fremont, one of the border towns Of
Sullivan county,I was overtaken by what
at first supposed was young man,
with rifle on his shoulder, and being
well pleased with the idea of having
company through the woods, turned a.
round and said "Good afternoon SIR"
"Good afternoon said my new acquain-
lance, but In tone of voice that sounded
to me, rather peculiar. My suspicious,
were at once aroused, and to satisfy my
self, made some inquiries in regard to
hunting, which were readily answered
by the young la dy, whom | had thus en-
countered. She said she had been out
ever since daylight; had followed "a buck
nearly all day. got one shot and wounded
him-but as there was little snow, she
could not get him, and was going to try
him the next day hoping that she should
get another shot at him, and she was
quite certain that she should kill him.
An ough / cannot give very good idea
of her appearance, will try to describe
her dress. The only article Of female
apparel visible was close fitting hood
upon her head, such as is often worn by
deer hunters. Next an India rubber
hunting coat her neither limbs were
encased in snug fitting pair of cordu-
roy pants, and pair Of Indian moccas-
ins upon her feet. She had good
looking rifle upon her shoulder, and
brace Of double barreled pistols in the
side pockets Of her coat, while most
formidable hunting knife hung suspen-
ded by her side. Wishing to witness
her skill with her hunting intruments,
commenced bantering her with regard
10 shooting. She smiled and said that
she was as good shot as was in the
woods--and to convince me, took out her
hunting knife and cut a rine, about four
inches in diameter, in a tree, with
small spot in the center. Then step
ping back thirty yards, and drawing up
one OF her pistols, put bot h balls inside
the ring. She then, at eighteen rods
from the tree, put ball from her rife
in the very center. We shortly came
70 her fathers house, and l gladly &C
cepted an invitation to stop there over
the night. The maiden hunter instead
of sitting down TO rest, as most hunters
10 when they get home, remarked that
she had got the ohoros TO do So ,s..
she went,-fed, watered, and stabbed a
pair Of young horses, yoke Of oxen,
and three COWS. She then went to the
saw mill and brought a slab on her should
er that would't like to have carried :;
and with an axe and saw soon worked
it into stove wood.
"Her next business was 10 change
her dress and get tea, which she did in
a manner which would have been credi-
table to a more scientific cook. After
,ea she finished up tho usual house
work, and then sat down and cpmmeo-
ced plying her needle in the most lady
like manner, | aSc ertained that her
mother was quite feeble, and her father
confined to the house with rheumatism.--
TIE whole family were intelligent, we'll
educated aud communicative. They had
moved from Schoharie county into the
woUdS about Three years before and
the father was taken lame the first wins
ter after their arrival, ard had not been
able 10 do anything since, and Lucy
Ann, as her mother called her, has ia
ken charge Of, pl'ughed, planted, and
harvested the farm learned to chop
wood, drive team and do all the ueces-
sary work. Game being plenty. she had
learned to use her fathers rifle, and spent
some Of her leisure time in hunting
She had not killed deer yet. but ex-
pressed her determination TO kill one, at
least, before New Years. She boosted
OF having killed any quantity Of squirrels,
patrldgcs and other small game. After
chatting sometime, she took her violin
from closet and played fifteen or twenty
tunes, and also sung few songs, accom-
panying herself on the violin, in style
that showed she was far from destitute
of musical skill. After spending a
pleasant evening we retired. The next
morning she was up at four o'clock, and
before sunrise had the breakfast out OF
the way, and her work out of the doors
and in the house done. and when left
few minutes after sunrise, she had
got on her hunting suit and was loading
her rifle for another chase after the deer.
= Bridgeport Conn. Farmer.