Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-29
house and he still lives and swears.

house and he still lives and swears.
In the morning early we are of
with half of our plunder and will
send back for the remainder
Eight rough miles 10 camp over q
succession of hog-back saud.dunes
We are scarcely started before large
doe and faWn cross our road, and
play around and look at us with
curious eyes, and no guns are out
When we reached our old camp on
Jefferson, we find that the overflow
has moved the drift and gashed and
Scared it until it is inaccessible, and
We,find another location on the feast
bank of Jefferson amid the oaks and
cane. Hard work and the tents are
up and camp puts on an appearance
of home.
Sunset, and our old friends Mr..
Sam Lennox and IversOn Warner
come and bring with them twenty
hounds, which make nearly fifty now
in camp. Our population is swell
ing, but these friends are more than
welcome. A load OF corn received
from Watson, which costs 1915 per
barrel. Verify corn is scarce in
Desha county. Some of the men
when the tents were up road out
prospecting, and report not much
"signs." Shields, our. .neighbOr, on
the levee, killed fine buck near
Cheatam Lake, and gave us "a quar-
ter for the!calnp. We retire early,
for we are tired from hard work.
Before day the men.are up, and ere
the sun had risenswe had breakfasted,
and we were ready for the woods.
There was no use in this, as matter
of fact, for it was Sunday, and there
would be no regular hunting, but it
had a business-like air, you know,
that impressed outsiders land the
tender-feet with an exaggerated idea
of our greatness as hunters, and we
could not let the, occasion go by.
We have secured the woods far
and near and the prospects are not
bright, for game Of all kinds seems
to be scarce, as the overflow fingered
until July. Powers shot at a large
buck running through the brush, and
this is the only deer that has been
seen by any one. Tired. but had a
good supper tonight, And this is
evening of the third day from home.
Monday, Nov. 14.-Last night the
wind blew a gale that made the tall
oaks creak and groan, and the rain
came down in sluices, but the new
tent Burke had given us stood the
storms and the rain beat against it in
vain. All nature was in disharmony
and riot, and our fifty hounds howl
ed in unison with the storm. The
camp is almost afloat this morning,
and our canvas boat, also present
from Burke, rides in the subsiding
waves of the lake, which dance and
heave in the golden radiance of the
rising sun, for it is clear once more.
Made all of the drives south of
camp, but nothing done. Had up
five or six deer and Pendleton shot
at doe in the drive, and the dogs
took up the chase and carried her
across the lake by our old camp and
through the, woods into Hand lake.
1t has been fruitless day for game,
some rabbits and ducks are all.
Charley Barker, with wagon, went
to Cheatam lake to see the fishermen
there seine the same. They have a
seine five hundred yards long and
are catching fish for the market.
While Barker was there they made
a haul and caught fully fifteen hum
dred pounds of merchantable fish
and twice that amount of the unsafe
able kind. He brought to camp a
fine lot of good fish and two enor-
nous alligator gar full seven feet in
length. Charley gays it beat any,
thing in the fishing line he had ever
seen. Arkansas is a land of water,
and consequently of fish.
Mr.. Joe Jones, McDowelPs friend
and a good hunter, is in camp to-
night. Clear and cool.
ITO be continued)