Everybody thought it a great pity that fellow's gun snapped when he so nearly _had_ him at Green Bay." Having delivered himself of these sentiments, he marched out, to my great relief.
Mr.Hamilton passed most of the afternoon with us; for the storm raged so without, that to proceed on our journey was out of the question.

He gave us many pleasant anecdotes and reminiscences of his early life in New York, and of his adventures since he had come to the Western wilderness.

When obliged to leave us for awhile, he furnished us with some books to entertain us, the most interesting of which was the biography of his father.
Could this illustrious man have foreseen in what a scene--the dwelling of his son--this book was to be one day perused, what would have been his sensations?
The most amusing part of our experience was yet to come.

I had been speculating, as evening approached, on our prospects for the night's accommodation.

As our pale, melancholy-looking landlady and her fat baby were evidently the only specimens of the feminine gender about the establishment, it was hardly reasonable to suppose that any of the other cabins contained wherewithal to furnish us a comfortable lodging, and the one in which we were offered nothing of the sort to view, but two beds, uncurtained, extended against the farther wall.