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His workmen continued busy getting the staves, and when the rivers rose with the spring floods, he had thirty thousand ready for the market. With this load he embarked for New Orleans. His boats without difficulty floated down the Obion into the majestic Mississippi. It was the first time he had seen the rush of these mighty waters.
They waited until Crockett came up and introduced himself. The men with Mr. Owen were boatmen, who had entered the Obion River from the Mississippi with a boat-load of articles for trade. They were just leaving to continue their voyage. Such men are seldom in a hurry. Time is to them of but very little value. Hospitality was a virtue which cost nothing.
"Oh, he is, all right, he's a familiar type here on the river. He's the kind of a sport who hunts men, Up-the-Bankers and game of that kind. He's a very successful hunter, too " "He said we'd hunt wild geese. We went up Obion River, and had lots of fun, and he said he'd help he'd help " "Find your wife?" "Yes, sir." Carline was abject. Terabon, however, was caught wordless.
They cannot have more than four hours the start. You say the creek has a winding course?" "Crooked as a coon's hind leg." "And the Obion?" "Most part the same. It curls through the bottom like the tail o' a cur-dog; an' nigher the Massissippy, it don't move faster than a snail 'ud crawl. I reck'n the run o' the river 'll not help 'em much.
From what I have heard of it, it is one of the most fertile spots in Tennessee. Moreover, as you are fond of hunting, you'll find game in abundance. The black bear, and even the panther or `painter, as our backwoodsmen have it are still common in the Obion bottom; and indeed, all throughout the forests of the Reserve." "I'm rejoiced to hear it."
There is a path that runs across the glade, bisecting it into two nearly equal parts. It is a tiny track, evidently not much used. It conducts from the stream on which stands the cabin of the squatter Holt, to another "fork" of the same river the Obion where clearings are numerous, and where there is also a large settlement bearing the dignified title of "town."
I got from the boat four barrels of meal, one of salt, and about ten gallons of whiskey." For these he paid in labor, agreeing to accompany the boatmen up the river as far as their landing-place at McLemone's Bluff. Life on the Obion. Hunting Adventures. The Voyage up the River. Scenes in the Cabin. Return Home. Removal of the Family. Crockett's Riches. A Perilous Enterprise.
"No doubt," continued my friend, with a smile, "you may shoot deer from your own door; or trap wolves and wild-cats at the entrance to your hen-roost." "Good!" "O yes though I can't promise that you will see anything of Venus in the woods, you may enjoy to your heart's content the noble art of venerie. The Obion bottom is a very paradise for hunters.
With this intelligence in my head, and the title-deeds in my pocket, I took leave of the friendly official; who, at parting, politely wished me "a pleasant time of it on my new plantation!" On returning to the house of my friend, I informed him of my purchase; and was pleased to find that he approved of it. "You can't be taken in," said he, "by land upon the Obion.
But for the same circumstance, we might have believed, that they had not yet come down the Obion; and perhaps would have remained at our post a day longer. The explanation is this: On the first night of our watch, a few hours after having taken my station in the tree, a fog had suddenly arisen upon the rivers, shrouding the channels of both.
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