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"Remember, I do not assert my faith in a theory which is indicated by an affirmative answer to these inquiries, for I have none. I give the record of the earth's progress in the past, as it is written upon the rocks, standing out upon precipices, brought to light by the researches, and translated by the energy of scie...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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From Bound Pond we rowed up the inlet, a broad and sluggish stream, full of grass and lily pads, to Little Tapper's Lake. We saw several deer feeding along the shore that, discovering us as we rowed carelessly along, went whistling and snorting away into the forest. As we approached the lake, dark clouds gathered in t...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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We entered Little Tripper's Lake towards evening, at the north end, and looking down south, one of the most beautiful views imaginable opened upon our vision. Surrounded by low and undulating hills, dotted with islands, with long points running far out into the lake, and pleasant little bays hiding around behind woode...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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We intended to remain here quietly for a few days, taking things easy, rowing, and fishing, and hunting enough for exercise only. There is plenty of deer, and trout, and duck, and partridge here, to be taken with small labor; there are bears, and wolves, and panthers, in the woods around. But these are fewer and harde...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"Go ahead," said the Doctor, "I'll take a quarter as my share of the story, and you may cut it off of either end, or carve it out of the middle. I'll take a quarter, tough or tender." "You may set down a quarter to my account," said Smith, "and Spalding shall take another." "Very well, then," said Martin, "I'll believ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"Well," continued Martin, as he lighted his pipe by dipping it into the embers and scooping up a small coal; "Well, Mark Shuff and a friend of his by the name of Westcott, had a shanty one winter over on Tupper's Lake; they were trappin' martin, and mink, and muskrat, and wolves, when they could get one. They shantied...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"Mark, as I said, had no rifle, his only weapons being a hunting knife and a heavy walking stick, which he carried in his hand. To say that he was not frightened, would be stating what I don't believe to be true, and I've heard him tell how his huntin' cap seemed to be lifted right up on his head, as if every hair poi...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Mark was not more than fifteen rods from the shore, but that ground was occupied by the wolves; on the right was the water, into which he might at any moment be compelled to plunge; while both before and behind him his advance and retreat was alike cut off. He had noticed that whenever he stopped, the wolves stopped,...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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[Illustration: Westcott's rifle broke the frozen stillness of the woods, and old greyback turned a summerset and went down. The astonished wolves clustered together for a moment in confusion, and the other barrel spoke out.] While we were listening to the story of Mark Shuff and the wolves, the old fellow over the wat...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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At the east end of the lake a large stream, deep, sluggish, and tortuous enters, which we voted came from a lake or pond, back at the base of the hills, seen some three or four miles distant in that direction, and while the other boats passed in another direction, Spalding and myself started upstream to explore it. As...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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Well, be it so, and who will regret it? It is a sad thing to see a whole race perish, wiped out from the aggregate of human existence. But in this instance, its place will be filled by a higher and nobler race, and the hunting-ground of the savage and the pagan, be converted into cultivated fields; where stood the wig...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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We threw out a trolling line as we passed up the lake; but we caught no trout. Along the shore, however, we caught small ones in plenty with the fly. These shore trout, as I call them, seem to be a distinct species, differing in many respects from the other trout of the lakes or streams. They are uniform in size, rare...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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As we sat with our meerschaums, in the evening, speculating upon the chances of securing a bear, or a moose, before leaving the woods, a wolf lifted up his voice on the hill opposite as, and made the old forest ring again with his howling. He was answered as in the night previous, from away down the lake, and by anoth...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"But I set out to tell the story that the old Ohio pilot told that night, while the travellers sat smoking around their camp-fires, and the wolves were howling in the wilderness about us. I do not, of course, vouch for its truth; I simply tell it as he told it to us. He seemed to believe it himself, for he told it wit...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"'Wal, I paddled away, the bear every now and then grinnin' at me, skinnin' his face till every tooth in his head stood right out, and grumblin' to himself in a way that seemed to say, 'I wonder if that chap's good to eat?' I didn't offer any opinion on the subject; I didn't say a word to him, treatin' him all the tim...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Do the men of the present day ever think what a gigantic labor that was of clearing away those old forests? Contemplate a wilderness, reaching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, from the great lakes and the majestic St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, every acre of which was covered with tall trees which had to be...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Exactly so," said the Doctor; "and we have not as yet had the pleasure of making his acquaintance. Suppose you give us an introduction to the gentleman." "These interruptions are entirely out of order," gravely remarked Smith; "they must not be repeated. The counsel will proceed." "Well," resumed Spalding, bowing def...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"That ash sapling was safe from that day. It stood then in the old forest. The woodman's axe spared it. It stands now in the open field, a majestic tree; its great trunk, eight feet in circumference, its long arms covered with foliage, casting a broad shadow over the pasture beneath, in which cattle and sheep seek for...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"I went out with a friend one day to one of these windfalls, partly after blackberries, and partly for partridges. We were both boys, younger than fifteen, then, and each possessing, probably, quite as much discretion as valor. We had separated a short distance from each other, he to gather berries, and I, with a smal...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"The Squire's story," said Cullen, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe, and commenced shaving a fresh supply of tobacco with his jack-knife, and depositing it in the palm of his left hand, "the Squire's story reminds me of an adventer Crop and I met with, over towards St. Regis Lake, a good many year ago; and I'll s...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"I was passin' quietly round this pint, lookin' down into the gully, with Crop at my heels, when, on turnin' the short elbow, there I stood, face to face, and within ten feet of a mighty big bear, that was travellin' my way, as the Judge said. I had no idee that he was around, and I'm quite sartain he didn't expect to...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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[Illustration: Crop made a great mistake when he calculated he was a match for that bear, for, with one cuff, the animal sent him eend over eend down the bank, upon the broken rocks below. But the little time that was so occupied saved me a deal of trouble and danger, for it lasted just long enough for me to bring my ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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We took our dogs from the island, and rowed to the broad channel of the inlet which enters the lake on the left hand side, as you look to the south. There are two of these inlets, which enter within a quarter of a mile of each other, each of which comes down from little lakes, or ponds, deeper in the wilderness. The o...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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"Treed, by Moses!" cried Cullen, as he dashed forward, the rest of us following as fast as we could. "Not too fast," said Martin, "not too fast. There's no hurry; he won't come down unless our noise frightens him. Let us go quietly; there's plenty of time. Belcher has got his eye on him, and will stay by him till we c...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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We dined that afternoon on a roasted sirloin of bear, stewed jerked venison, fried trout, and pork. I cannot say that I altogether relished the roast, though some of our company took to it hugely. The truth is, that with some of them venison and trout were beginning to be somewhat stale dishes, they did not relish fat...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Spoken like a liberal and free-hearted gentleman," said Smith. "Well, Doctor, name the amount and nature of the blackmail you intend to levy upon me. But have a conscience, man! have a conscience!" "It will be making a great sacrifice on my part," the Doctor replied, "but out of friendship for you, I'll make you a pr...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"By Noah?" asked Smith, interrupting him, "Noah who?" "What ignorance there is in this world, even in these days of educational enlightenment!" remarked the Doctor to Spalding and myself. "Now, here is a decently informed gentleman, claiming to be a Christian man, to have studied the Bible, and don't know who Noah was...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"'Halloo!' says the occupant of the rock, 'send us a boat, and take us aboard. The freshet is getting pretty bad, and it is getting a little damp, up here.' "'I can't do it,' says Noah, 'my craft is full of better people.' "'But,' says the applicant for admission into the Ark, 'let me in, and I'll superintend the navi...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Impossible!" exclaimed Smith, "we can't go that, Doctor. I can't stand my quarter of that." "Foolish man!" continued the Doctor; "I say I was alone; let me demonstrate my proposition. Blackstone says, and what he says every lawyer will concede is the end of the law, and the beginning too, for that matter, that when a...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"'Keep cool, my dear,' said I; 'let us argue this matter.' I was calm, for I knew the law was on my side; I had the books, and the courts, and the statutes all in my favor. I was fortified, you see. "'Argue the matter!' she exclaimed; 'not till it is admitted that I'm somebody. If I'm nobody, I can't be argued with, I...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"'Very well, my dear, let us see if we cannot compromise this matter. Suppose we allow his philosophy to stand as a general truth, making you an exception. We'll say that wives in general are nobody, but that you shall be exempt from the general rule, and be considered always hereafter, and as between ourselves, as so...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"It is one of the mysteries of our system of jurisprudence," replied Spalding, "that while everything else is on the move, while progress is written in letters of living light upon all other things, that remains stationary--at least in a comparative sense. The world moves on, civilization advances, science and the art...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"I remember an anecdote of the celebrated William Wirt, related to show how ready his mind was, how instant in activity, and how suddenly it would flash with an eloquence, superior to that exhibited by the most elaborate preparation. He was arguing a cause before the Supreme Court of the United States, and laid down, ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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CHAPTER XXII. A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER--A NEW LAKE--A MOOSE--HIS CAPTURE--A SUMPTUOUS DINNER. We started the next morning on an exploring voyage up the right-hand stream, which enters this beautiful lake some half a mile west of the one we had looked into the day before. On either hand, as we passed along the narrow chann...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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We saw the fresh tracks of a moose on the sandy beach, tracks that had been made that morning, and we concluded to spend the day here, in the hope of securing one of these gigantic deer. We rowed to the island, intending to encamp there. We entered a little bay, of half an acre, the points forming it coming within a f...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"Look here!" said I; "gentlemen, this game is mine. I claim him by right of discovery, and my right must not be interfered with." "Very well," the Doctor answered, "we'll only take a hand in his capture if he's likely to escape. So, go ahead." As we came within a few yards of the shore, and we could see that the anima...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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On our return to the lake, Spalding and myself rowed across to the mouth of a cold brook, to procure a supply of fresh trout, upon which, with our moose and bear-meat, to dine. This we soon accomplished, and on our arrival home, we found huge pieces of moose and bear roasting before a blazing fire. The meat was suppor...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"I remember," said Smith, "the first year that I was in college, of hearing two learned professors disputing about what sort of animal it was that made the piping noise we hear in the marshy places, and stagnant pools, in the spring time, usually known as peepers. One insisted that it was a newt, or small lizard; and ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"You _did_ do a great thing, my friend," said Spalding, "you solved a mystery about which men, wise in the learning of the books, had perhaps been disputing for centuries. What are the peepers? asked the naturalist, who listened to their piping notes from the marshy places in the spring time. It was a matter of small ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"The lightning, that fierce spirit of the storm, that darted down on its mission of destruction from the black cloud floating in the sky, became a thing of interest to the mechanical world, and the question was asked, 'Why cannot the lightning be harnessed into the service of man, and be made utilitarian?' Philosophy ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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"But who would suppose that such a tiny little frogling could make such a loud, shrill, and ear-piercing sound? Who would think that a million of such puny things, could make the air of a summer evening so full of the music of their songs? I remember how, in my boyhood, I listened to their voices, which came up loudes...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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CHAPTER XXIII. THE CRICKET IN THE WALL--THE MINISTER'S ILLUSTRATION--OLD MEMORIES. We spent the following day in drifting quietly around the lake, floating lazily in the little bays, under the shadow of the tall trees, and lounging upon small islands, gathering the low-bush whortleberries which grew in abundance upo...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"I have been listening," said Spalding, as we sat upon the rude benches in front of our camp-fire, indulging in our usual season of smoking after our meals, "to the song of the crickets in those rude jams, and they call up sad, yet pleasant memories from the long past; of the old log house, the quiet fire-place, the c...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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CHAPTER XXIV. THE ACCIDENTS OF LIFE--"SOME MEN ACHIEVE GREATNESS, AND SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM"--A SLIDE--RATTLESNAKES AT THE TOP AND AN ICY POOL AT THE BOTTOM--A FANCIFUL THEORY. While we sat thus conversing, our boatmen went down along the beach, and around a little point that ran out into the lake, to...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"It is a fanciful idea, that whatever we say or think, is immortal; that every word we utter goes ringing through the universe forever; that every thought of the heart becomes a creation, a thing of vitality in some shape, starting forward among the things of some sort of life, never to die! I have sometimes, in my dr...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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CHAPTER XXV. HEADED TOWARDS HOME--THE MARTIN AND SABLE HUNTER--HIS CABIN--AUTUMNAL SCENERY. We concluded that we would break up our camp in the morning, and drift leisurely back towards civilization. We had tarried upon this beautiful lake until we had explored its romantic nooks, and we started on our return to our...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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We rowed leisurely along the eastern shore, and in a deep bay found excellent fishing, at the mouth of a cold mountain brook. On the banks of this bay we found the winter hut of a martin and sable trapper. It had an outer and inner apartment, the latter almost subterranean. The hut was composed of small logs, which a ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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"The hillsides about these lakes," remarked the Doctor, "must be superlatively beautiful in the fall, when the forest puts on its autumnal foliage. They present such a variety of trees, of so many different kinds, and the hills and mountains are so admirably arranged, that they must be gorgeous beyond description. How...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
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"A calm autumnal day in the country is a great thing, a beautiful thing, a thing to thank God for; a thing to make one happy, buoyant of spirit, full of gratitude to the great Creator; a thing to make one merry, too, not with a loud and boisterous mirth, but with a heart full to overflowing with cheerfulness, and a ca...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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CHAPTER XXVI. A SURPRISE--A SERENADE--A VISIT FROM STRANGERS--AN INVITATION TO BREAKFAST--A FASHIONABLE HOUR AND A BOUNTIFUL BILL OF FARE. The evening was calm, and the lake slept in stirless beauty before us. The shadows of the mountains reached far out from the shore, lieing like a dark mantle upon the surface of ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
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Spalding and the Doctor followed, and their amazement was equalled only by their admiration when "Oft in the stilly night" came stealing in matchless harmony over the water, "A serenade from the Naiads, by Jupiter!" exclaimed Smith. "A concert, by the Genii of the waters!" cried the Doctor. "Hush!" said Spalding,...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
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{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
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The morning broke bright and balmy. A pleasant breeze swept lazily over the lake, lifting the thin mist that hung like a veil of gauze above the water. We left our tents standing, and crossed over to the shanty of our friends of the previous evening to breakfast. We found them living like princes. Their two boatmen ha...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
It was amusing to hear Smith relate the manner of capturing the bear, the glory of which achievement he had won by the tossing up of a dollar; how he had started out alone in one of the boats with his rifle to look into a little bay half a mile below the shanty, where be left the rest of us sleeping after dinner; and ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"Gentlemen," said Spalding, "we will not all fire at this animal as we did at Smith's bear. One bullet is enough for him, and if he gets down among us, I think six men will be a match for one 'coon,' so we need not be inhuman through a sense of danger. Whose shot shall he be?" "I move that Spalding have the first shot...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"We have played the boy again, yesterday and to-day, pretty well," remarked Smith, as we sat in front of oar tents in the evening, smoking our pipes. "And I am half inclined to think we have started for home too soon, after all. Spalding's moralizing for the last two or three days deceived me. I thought, as he was be...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"You remind me," said Spalding, "of a little incident, simple in itself, but which, at the time, made a deep impression upon my mind, and which occurred but a few weeks ago. Returning from my usual walk, one morning, my way lay through the Capitol Park. The trees, covered with their young and fresh foliage, intertwine...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"'Please tell me what tune it is?' said the little boy, addressing me. "I told him, and he turned to his little sister, saving, 'Come, Lizzie, we must go; mother said we must be home by half-after seven, and it's most that now;' and he put his arm lovingly around her neck, and she put hers around his waist, and they w...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"'I should like to be a big strong man like father is!' How like a boy was this? Thirsting for the strength, the might and power of manhood! And this is the aspiration of the young heart always; to be mature, strong to grapple with the cares, and wrestle with the stern actualities of life. How little of these does chi...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
After an hour's rest, we launched our little fleet upon the river again, and while the sun was yet above the western highlands, we stood upon the broad flat rock at the mouth of Bog River, looking out over Tupper's Lake, one of the most beautiful sheets of water that the sun or the stars ever looked upon. Our sea-bisc...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"Your question," answered Spalding, "is suggestive. Did you ever think what gigantic strides the world has made within the memory of men now living, and who are yet unwilling to be counted as old? Look back for only fifty years, and note what a stupendous leap it has taken! Where then were the iron roads over which th...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"There is hope for the world in all this mighty progress, for with it will one day come the development of the true nature and theory of government, the true solution of the great theory of the social compact, the proper adjustment of the relations of man to man, a right appreciation of the nature and value of human r...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"The good time of which you speak," said the Doctor, "when there shall be no more infirmity of age, no growing old, save in years; when there shall be no wasting by disease, through the perfectability of the curative science, or the discovery of some recuperative agency, stronger than the law of decay, will never come...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"Well," said Spalding, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe, and rose to retire, under the cover of the tent, for the night, "be it as you say, what matters it? 'I would not live always.' Give to us the hope of an hereafter, a faith that looks through the valley of the shadow of death, and sees immortality, a world o...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"Talkin' about that trip among the Adirondacks, puts me in mind of an adventer I had with a bull moose, on one occasion among them. There are times when sich an animal is dangerous. I've hearn tell of elephants gittin' crazy and breakin' loose from their keepers, or killin' them, and makin' a general smash of whatever...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"When I first saw him, I was standin' with the butt of my rifle on the log, my hand graspin' the barrel, and as I caught it up suddenly to load, the string of my powder-horn caught between the muzzle and the ramrod, broke, and the horn fell to the ground. Here was a fix for a hunter to be in. My rifle was empty, and e...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
CHAPTER XXX. GOOD-BYE--FLOATING DOWN THE RACKETT--A BLACK FOX--A TRICK UPON THE MARTIN TRAPPERS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. We rose with the dawn the next morning, and before the sun was above the hills we were on our way down the lake, to separate as we struck the Rackett; the Doctor and Smith to return by the way of Kee...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"I say," shouted Smith, as they were about rounding a point that would hide them from our view, "remember our compact about killing the bear. The glory of that achievement belongs to me, you know. Don't say a word about it when you get home till you see me. I haven't fully made up my mind as to the manner of capturing...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"You have left me little," I replied, "to add to what you have already said, in expressing the sources of my enjoyment among these beautiful lakes. Fishing and hunting, considered in the abstract, are things I care but little about. They are pleasant enough in their way, but what brings me here is the strong desire as...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"Hold on, Cullen," said I, "lay steady for a moment." I drew upon the animal, and just as it reached the shore, fired, and it turned over dead. We found it to be a black fox, that had walked out upon the ledge, and thus been added another victim to the indulgence of an idle curiosity. Spalding's bullet had grazed its ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"I mind once, a good many years ago, Crop and I was over towards the St. Regis, on a cruise after martin and sable, and anything else in the way of game we could pick up. I'd laid out my trappin' arrangements on a pretty large scale, and was doin' a little better than midlin', when I found that my traps were sprung by...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
"The sun was, may be, an hour high, when lookin' along the line of marked trees, I saw a black animal come trotting mighty softly towards the trap I was watchin'. I knew him at once. He was a black fox, and I knew that he was the gentleman that had been makin' free with my property for the last few days. He trotted up...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
Opposite, and just below the town, is Carlton Island, on which stand the ruins of an old French fortification, the walls and trenches and the solitary chimneys, from which the wooden barracks have rotted or been burned away, remain as melancholy testimonials of the bloody strifes between the red men of the forest, and...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
We spent a pleasant week at Cape Vincent, and then turned our faces homeward, invigorated in strength and buoyant in spirits, to begin again a round of toil, from which we, at least, could claim no further exemption. "H----," said a friend of mine, as he stalked into my sanctum, a few days after my return, and seated ...
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
1809
1878
['en']
11
{'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'}
PG10009
THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD. A VISION. ----to tell of deeds Above heroic. MILTON. M.DCC.XCI. THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD It was my chance to be conversing with a Friend of the benevolent and indefatigable HOWARD, when our country was first afflicted with the public intelligence of his death. After our first expressi...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
My arguments, and my zeal, made some impression on the mind of my antagonist; and sunk so deeply into my own, that on my retiring to rest they gave rise to the following vision. I was suddenly transported to the confines of a region, which astonished me by its loveliness and extent; it was called, The Paradise of true...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"These structures, that you survey with astonishment," said one of my benevolent conductors, "are devoted to what you mortals denominate the three liberal professions, Law, Medicine, and Theology. Whoever has a claim to distinguished honour from any one of the three, has a just encomium pronounced upon his services by...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"After passing many years of life in the painful investigation of human offences, it is with peculiar satisfaction that I find myself commissioned to commemorate, in this Assembly, a character of virtue without example--a character, at once so meek and so sublime, that, if a feeling spirit had been poisoned with misan...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Of good, more immediately visible, which his exertions produced, there is abundant evidence in his own country. In the wide circle of his foreign excursion, what nation, what city, does not bear some conspicuous traces of his intrepid and indefatigable beneficence! Of the astonishing length to which his zeal and pers...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"By this community, I am confident, such public honours will be paid to HOWARD, as may be most suitable to the peculiar interest which it becomes us to take in his glory. What these honours shall be is a point to be settled by this liberal and enlightened Assembly, which assuredly will not fail to remember that he sug...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"I am persuaded, that every individual to whom I have now the happiness of speaking, will readily agree with me in this sentiment, that we cannot possibly do ourselves more honour as a Fraternity than by considering HOWARD as an Associate: assuredly, there is no class of men who may more justly presume to cherish his ...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Beneficial as his life has been to the world, his memory may be still more so. It may prove a perpetual blessing to mankind, if it dissipates, as it ought to do, a weak and common prejudice, which often operates as a palsy upon the first idea of a great and generous undertaking. The prejudice I mean is a hasty persua...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Never, indeed, was the astonishing influence of plain and simple goodness more strikingly displayed, than in the deference and respect which this private and meek individual received, not only from foreign and imperious Rulers of the Earth, but from hardened and atrocious wretches, on whom Justice herself could hardl...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"I could wish, for the moral interest of mankind, that it were possible to obtain a minute account of the services rendered to the calamitous spirit of many a forsaken individual by the singular charity of HOWARD. What could be more instructive than to observe how his Beneficence encreased by its exertion and success;...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"I mention not a Medal as a new idea--it has been already in contemplation; and a motto for it suggested, which applies with such singular force and propriety to the person whom it is designed to commemorate, that perhaps the wide range of classical literature could not afford another passage so strikingly apposite to...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Earthly distinctions, you know, are of little moment in the sight of Heaven. You will hear no Prelate; and perhaps you may feel surprised and indignant, when you observe how very few of your Mitred Countrymen are to be seen in this Assembly; but you will not retain in this hallowed spot that most common of human infi...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"If we take the word Courage" in the most common and simple sense of that term, as a generous and noble contempt of personal hardship and danger; who has given more numerous or more striking examples of such brave contempt! Or if we follow the definition of Courage given us by a profound, an eloquent, and philanthropi...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"The Sensualist and the Sceptic may, indeed, deride the conduct of a man, who sacrificed all the common pleasures of life, and sought for no recompence but in the favour of Heaven. It may be said that an illusive fervor of mind has hurried men, in all periods of the world, into singular and wild exertions, which excit...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"To the sublime fortitude of these collected warriors, let us compare the mild magnanimity of HOWARD. Let us survey him setting forth for an expedition as perilous as theirs; not as the Soldier of Fanaticism, but as the Pilgrim of Humanity! Attachment to GOD, and resolution which no hardship, no danger, no difficulty ...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"In the poor and calamitous objects of his regard, in the gentleness and purity of his manners, in his modest and magnanimous refusal of earthly honours, in the wide extent and courageous perseverance of his charity, we cannot fail to discern how richly he was endowed with the genuine spirit of that pure and sublime R...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Yes, my Brethren, the day will assuredly come, when the servant so signally faithful will be called to a reward, surpassing the utmost reach of our conception, by the voice of his Righteous Master--then, and then only, will praise be fully proportioned to his transcendant merit; when this consummate Christian is rais...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
In the moment that this benevolent Divine concluded his address to his attentive brethren, my kind and vigilant Guides removed me from the temple.--I was now led into a scene entirely different from those we left. It was an open and verdant plain, with a few elevations in the ground, that afforded advantageous views o...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
This speech was followed by a burst of acclamation from those to whom it was particularly addressed. Similar shouts of applause resounded from different quarters of the spacious field, while our aetherial attendants, Gratitude and Admiration, who followed each speaker at the close of each address to different division...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
"Thou faithful servant of Heaven! thy hour of recompence is come. Justly hast thou cautioned mankind not to impute thy conduct to rashness or enthusiasm. Weak and wavering in their own pursuits of felicity, thou wilt not wonder to see them so in their sense of thy merit, and their zeal for thy honour: but I am commiss...
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
Hayley, William
1745
1820
['en']
15
{'Howard, John, 1726-1790'}
PG10010
and PG Distributed Proofreaders 365 FOREIGN DISHES A Foreign Dish for every day in the year 1908 _JANUARY._ 1.--Austrian Goulasch. Boil 2 calves' heads in salted water until tender; then cut the meat from the bone. Fry 1 dozen small peeled onions and 3 potatoes, cut into dice pieces; stir in 1 tablespoonful of fl...
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6.--Scotch Scones. Sift 1-1/2 pints of flour; add a pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful of soda mixed with 1 pint of sour milk. Mix to a soft dough. Lay on a well-floured baking-board and roll 1 inch thick. Cut with a round cake-cutter and bake on a hot greased griddle until brown on both sides. Serve hot with butter. 7.--...
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12.--Russian Pancakes. Make a pancake batter and fry in thin cakes. Then spread them with a layer of anchovies, butter and a layer of caviare. Sprinkle with minced shallots, cayenne pepper and lemon-juice. Roll up and serve hot as possible. 13.--Egyptian Cabbage. Parboil a cabbage in salted water; drain and stuff wi...
365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year
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19.--Vienna Peach Torte. Make a rich pie-dough; then line a pie-dish with the dough. Pare and remove the stones from the peaches and cut into quarters. Lay closely on the pie; sprinkle with brown sugar and moisten with wine. Bake in a moderate oven until done. Then spread with a meringue and let brown in the oven a f...
365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year
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25.--India Curried Eggs. Cut hard-boiled eggs in halves; then fry 1 small chopped onion and 1 chopped apple in hot butter; add 1/4 cup of pounded almonds and 1 pint of milk, mixed with 1/2 tablespoonful of cornstarch. Season with salt and a dessertspoonful of curry-powder. Let cook ten minutes; then add the eggs. Let...
365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year
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31.--Rissotto (ITALIAN). Boil 1 cup of rice in salted water until soft; drain. Then grate Parmesan cheese and cover the rice with cheese. Let steam in the oven a few minutes; then pour over some highly seasoned tomato-sauce, and serve hot with fried veal chops. _FEBRUARY._ 1.--Oriental Canapes. Take some lobster or...
365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year
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6.--Swiss Baked Eggs. Melt 1 ounce of butter in a baking-pan; then cover the bottom of the pan with thin slices of Swiss cheese. Break in 6 eggs; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour over 4 tablespoonfuls of cream; sprinkle with grated Swiss cheese, and let bake in the oven to a delicate brown. Serve hot. 7.--Jewish ...
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