The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-10

d person travelling Ill IHe VIII pOrIlOuS VI
Delaware and Sullivan countless New York :
AS was trudging along one afternoon in
the town of Fremont, one of the border
towns of Sullivan county, [ was overtaken
by what first supposed was young man
with rifle on his shoulder; and being well
pleased with the idea of having company
through the woods, l turned around and
said, {" Good afternoon, sir )" "Good after
noon,' said my new acquaintance, but in
tone of voice that sounded to me rather
peculiar. My suspicious were at once
aroused, and to satisfy myself made some
enquiries in regard to hunting, which were
readily answered by the young lady whom
thus encountered. She said she had been
out ever since daylight-had followed buck
nearly all day, got one shot ndwounded him,
but as there was little snow she could not get
him, and was going to try him the next day,
hoping that she could get another shot at
him, and she was quite certain that she
should kill him.
Although | cannot give a very good idea
of her appearance, will try to describe her
dress. The only article of female apparel
visible was close-ftted 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, tight fitting
pair of corduroy pants, and pair of Indian
mocasins upon her feet. She had good
looking rifle upon her shoulder, and a brace
of double barreled pistols in the side pock-
cts of her coat, while formidable hunting
knife hung suspended by her side Wishing to
witness her skill with hunting instruments,
commenced bantering her with regard to
shooting. She smiled and said she was as
good shot as was in the woods, and to con-
vince me she took out her hunting knife and
cut ring four inches in diameter in tree,
with a small spot in the center. Then
stepping back thirty yards, and drawing up
one of her pistols, put both balls inside
the ring She then, at thirty five rods from
the tree, put ball from her rifle in the very
centre We shortly came to her fathers
house, and gladly accepted an invitation
to stop there over night. The maiden hunt
er, instead of sitting down to rest, as most
hunters do when they go home, remarked
that she had the chores to do. So out she
went fed, watered and stabbed a pair of
young horses, yoke of oxen and two COWS.
She then went to the saw MILL and brought
slab on her shoulder that shouldn't like
to carry, and with an axe and saw soon
worked it into stove wood.
Her first business was to change her dress
and get tea, which she did in a manner
which would have been creditable to more
scientific cook After tea she finished up
her usual housework, and then sat down and
commenced plying her needle in very lady
like manner. l ascertained that her mother
was quite feeble, and her father confined to
the house with rheumatism. The whole
family were intelligent, well educated and
communicative. They had moved from
Schoharie county into the woods about three
years before, and the father was taken lame
the first winter after their arrival, and had
not been able to do anything since. Lucy
Ann, as her mother called her, has taken
charge of, ploughed, planted, and harvested
the farm, learned to chop wood, drive team,
and do all necessary 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 expressed her determination to kill one
at least before New Years. She boasted of
having killed any quantity of partridges,
squirrels and other small game. After
chatting some time, she brought violin
from a closet, and played fifteen or twenty
tunes, and also sang few songs, accompa-
nying herself on the violin in style that
showed she was far from destitute Of musi-
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