The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-23


Months, 20 and rs per cent. additional Three changes
to yearly advertisers without add tienal charge
tasted toasted bread or salt. / was begin
ming to fesl a desire for other food than
broiled meat. l ate my breakfast and had
enough meat left for another day, and told
Ned, who was over demolishing rich patch
of prairie peas, to spend the day as suited
best, as had determined to remain at that
camp another day. l employed myself
making observations on the, to me, new
beauties and instructive lessons to be found
in undisturbed nature, until 10 O'Clock A.
NJ, when l went to where had seen tho
bees tho evening before. There were two
bees on the sand. One of them soon filled
his pouch, and l got his course pretty cor
rectly; the other bee soon went in the same
direction. set out tracing the course and
examining the trees for holes, as far as the
border of the prairie. No bees; went back
to the water where great many were
drinking and going off every minute. 1
watched four or five depart. They all went
the same way l had been hunting. Three
or four hundred yards out in the prairie
stood a little post oak grove, exactly in
the course. | went there, and found it
going in at hole near the ground. Invent
to my camp, and for fear the sound
should make cutting into the hollow tree
might alarm some of the skulking Indians,
fixed up Ned with all my traps on him, SO
that if such casualty should occur
might be able to make my escape by rum
ming.
Before l had struck lick, l made a
searching look over the widespread prairie.
Everything was moving quietly. No sig
nal smokes, no rushing buffalo, no frantic
mustangs beating the grass into dust with
rapid feet. The deer were, some standing,
others carelessly Illuminating as they lay on
the ground; while the big old brown wolf,
looking very much like shabby domestic
dog, was slowly creeping about in the grass
catching grasshoppers. "All alone once
more, }" said l; and getting the axe, found
the tree mere shell, not an inch thick.
being crammed full of combs. The combs
were sealed up, and full of tine-f1avored
honey. took out what honey needed,
with as little disturbance to the community
l had robbed as possible; and then made
myself sweat and pant carrying big fiat
stone quarter of a mile to place over the
breach had made, to prevent others from
treating them as rascally as l had. My
meal that evening was very agreeable, sur
passing anything found at the table of the
wealthy. Good, fat, well broiled venison,
taken with pure honey, is as great an
excitant of the powers of the ssnsorium
commune in the human species as pure
solution of sulph. copper is to excite the
powers Of clean galvanic battery. No
wonder the ancient hunters lived so long,
when their children were raised on buffalo
liver, ate raw with the gall, and the prnci-
pal food of the adults was venison and
honey. Longevity would be the reward Of
any people who would make that simple
dietic rule habitual.
Morning came again, and had been
long enough at that camp; and taking
breakfast of my last venson and honey,
left, keeping we'll out among the hills and
small creeks. Saw immense numbers of
deer, and the ground being hilly, often
came in short range of them before they
saw me. discovered that day little
trick in the deer, when they are suddenly
fore. had climbed up a sharp little noun
tain, and Immediately over its backbone
lay half an aero of rich flat land, covered
with luxuriant growth of rank weeds and
low hog plum bushes, no portion of which
was visible to me until was on the very
pinnacle of the ridge; and to pass over this
little sharp up spirel like elevation tumbled
me rather hurriedly in amongst the plums
and weeds and about forty deer who seemed
to be there on account of the ripe plums;
and, at my sudden appearance amongst
them, they were so badly frightened that
they dashed frantically in every possible
direction, bounding over the border of the
little fiat, and preciptately down the de-
clivity beyond, with rushing sound that
could be heard for some time. Ned STOP
ped, held himself steady, expecting me to
shoot. The wild squandering of the deer
was funny to me; l couldn't refrain from a
good hearty laugh. 1t was some minutes
before l moved onward again, and had
not proceeded five steps until deer that
lay squatted in the thick weeds bounced up
and fled away furiously adown the noun
tain. Ned paused again. On looking close,
could see another squatted in the bushes.
Then l rode about over the little patch of
thick weeds and jumped up six more, max
ing eight in all that had squatted. They
were all alike, dropped down on their bris-
ket, with their necks stretched out at full
length and their jaws lying flat on the
ground; and this was the first time l had
known them to resort to that species of
deception. l have known them to do it
often since. In the season when their
fawns are only few hours old, have seen
the mother standing with a high head in
the prairie, five or six hundred yards dis
tant, watching my movements very closely,
and when, for some cause, my attention
would be turned for a few moments they
would disappear.
sB Next to the breathing of pure air,
exercise, and the use of suitable food, moth.
ing more contributes to the preservation of
health than the possession of good teeth.
All the arts used for their preservation are
therefore of the highest Importance. 1t
should never be forgotten that the teeth
will not ordinarily decay, either originally