The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
Table of Contents
Captain Mayne Reid
"The Hunters' Feast"
Chapter One
A Hunting Party
Chapter Two
The Camp and Camp-Fire
Chapter Three
Besançon’s adventure in the swamps
Chapter Four
The Passenger-Pigeons
Chapter Five
Hunt with a Howitzer
Chapter Six
Killing a Cougar
Chapter Seven
The Cougar
Chapter Eight
Old Ike’s Adventure
Chapter Nine
The Musquash
Chapter Ten
A Rat-Hunt
Chapter Eleven
Musquitoes and their Antidote
Chapter Twelve
The ’Coon, and his Habits
Chapter Thirteen
A ’Coon-Chase
Chapter Fourteen
Wild Hogs of the Woods
Chapter Fifteen
Treed by Peccaries
Chapter Sixteen
A Duck-Shooting Adventure
Chapter Seventeen
Hunting the Vicuña
Chapter Eighteen
A Chacu of Vicuñas
Chapter Nineteen
Squirrel-Shooting
Chapter Twenty
Treeing a Bear
Chapter Twenty One
The Black Bear of America
Chapter Twenty Two
The Trapper Trapped
Chapter Twenty Three
The American Deer
Chapter Twenty Four
Deer Hunt in a “Dug-Out.”
Chapter Twenty Five
Old Ike and the Grizzly
Chapter Twenty Six
A Battle with Grizzly Bears
Chapter Twenty Seven
The Swans of America
Chapter Twenty Eight
Hunting the Moose
Chapter Twenty Nine
The Prairie-Wolf and Wolf-Killer
Chapter Thirty
Hunting the Tapir
Chapter Thirty One
The Buffaloes at last
Chapter Thirty Two
The Bison
Chapter Thirty Three
Trailing the Buffalo
Chapter Thirty Four
Approaching the Buffalo
Chapter Thirty Five
Unexpected Guests
Chapter Thirty Six
A Supper of Wolf-Mutton
Chapter Thirty Seven
Hare Hunting and Cricket Driving
Chapter Thirty Eight
A Grand Battue
Chapter Thirty Nine
The Route Home
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Mayne Reid
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Our English friend Thompson had a store of the finest Havannahs, which he smoked with the grace peculiar to the English cigar smoker; holding his cigar impaled upon the point of his knife-blade. Kentucky also smoked cigars, but his was half buried within his mouth, slanted obliquely towards the right cheek. Besançon preferred the paper cigarette, which he made extempore, as he required them, out of a stock of loose tobacco. This is Creole fashion—now also the mode de Paris.
A song from the doctor enlivened the conversation, and certainly so melodious a human voice had never echoed near the spot. One and all agreed that the grand opera had missed a capital “first tenor” in not securing the services of our companion.
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