The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire

The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Майн Рид. The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire

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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