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Says he, "I did all but come to hear myself preach that they had to do." He did not remain here long, however, but soon accepted a call to Indianapolis, the capital of the State, where he lived for eight years. He occupied a tasteful cottage on the outskirts of the town, and gathered about him his household treasures, which consisted of his family, his library, his horse, cow, pigs, and chickens.
Chickens, one hour and a half. Old fowls, two or three hours. Halibut and salmon, fifteen minutes to a pound. Blue-fish, bass, &c., ten minutes to a pound. Fresh cod, six minutes to a pound. Baked halibut, twelve minutes to a pound. Baked blue-fish, &c., ten minutes to a pound. Trout, pickerel, &c., eight minutes to a pound.
You'll find the tender, juicy kidney suet in the ash platters. Each table seats sixteen, with fresh water right at hand. Now, have pallets and enjoy yourselves. Make a night of it. Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow your pelts are mine." "Don't count your chickens too soon," urged Joel. "To-morrow you're mine!" repeated Dell, ignoring all advice.
The city hath its offal heap where refuse matter is destroyed; each home its garret, the contents cast out at regular intervals; the individual throws away his old clothes, old tools, old vehicles. Why should not the soul have its refuse valley where the past is cast out of life and memory? Farmers' boys sometimes set steel traps by shocks of corn whither come quail and prairie chickens.
When our dais was spread and lunch laid out in the cool breeze, it seemed a blessed spot. A good many negroes came offering chickens and milk in exchange for tobacco, which we had not. We bought some milk with money. A United States transport just now steamed by, and the men on the guards cheered and waved to us. We all replied but Annie.
Jack, too, had a good flock of chickens in his barn-yard, so he had plenty of eggs; but he stated that he had not killed a single chicken since Fred and Terry had gone North, as he preferred quail and prairie chicken.
The exploits of that precious pair may be compared with the following: An alewife went to the market with a brood of chickens and an old black hen. For the hen and one chicken she could not find a purchaser; so, before leaving the town, she called upon a surgeon, to try to effect a sale. He bought the chicken, but declined taking the hen. She then asked him if he would draw a tooth for it.
And Bessie, used to a farm where chickens, except when they were old and tough, were never eaten, but kept for sale, wondered at the goodness of everything. That night, although it was not part of the plan, there was an informal camp fire, held about a blazing pyre of logs.
Aunt Jessie had raptures over the home-made carpets, quilts and quaint furniture; Rose could not keep away from the windows, for each framed a lovely picture; and the little folks made friends at once with the other children, who filled their arms with chickens and kittens, and did the honours handsomely.
The sound-board has a crack in it somewhere, Nino says, and two of the notes are dumb since the great German maestro came home with my boy one night, and insisted on playing an accompaniment after supper. We had stewed chickens and a flask of Cesanese, I remember, and I knew something would happen to the piano.
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