"Kentucky horses.
Gowdy comes from Kentucky.

Stopped because his wife is bad sick." "Where's he ?" I asked.
"Out shooting geese," said he.

"Don't seem to fret his gizzard about his wife; but they say she's struck with death." All the while I was cooking my supper I was thinking of this woman, "struck with death," and her husband out shooting geese, while she struggled with our last great antagonist alone.

One of the women came over from the other camp with her husband, and I spoke to her about it.
"This man," said she, "jest acts out what all the men feel.

A womern is nothing but a thing to want as long as she is young and can work.