John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Capitolo 8
not informed of some of the details of this trip. But we know, from
other numerous cases, what was his/her general character.
You/he/she has had to spend two or three weeks. The whole family went afoot,
approximately making fifteen miles for day. They probably had two horses of package load,
with pots and boilers and some other essential family and cultivating
utensils. I lend in the afternoon that the Mr. Carsons would start to look around for
an appropriate place of camp for the night. He would find, if possible,
the picturesque banks of some brook of management, where grass there was for
his/her horses and a growth of forest to furnish him/it with wood for his/her box and
for fire. If the time were pleasant, with the perspective of a calm and
night without clouds, an a lot of disdains protection would be reared and the tired one
family, with a bathrobe of shed Indian buffalo on the soft grass for a cover it is able
sleeps far more pleasant in the open air, in that the most greater part of millionaires sleep
salt carpeted and on beds of down.
If clouds were gathering and threatening winds were groaning through the
tree-tops, the vigorous arm of the Mr. Carson, with his/her acute ax it is able, in
a hour, back a field that could offer challenge to some storm to the agenda. The
roof would be covered of straw so, with barking and from very it covers of grass, as to be completely
impenetrable from the rain. Bathrobes of Indian buffalo and some of the soft one and
fragrant branches of the tree of hemlock, would create a couch that a prince
it would envy. Perhaps, as they came long, they had shot a turkey or a locks
of ducks or a buck from which also fat they has cut the tenderest
game. Some one could go out with his/her rifle and soon you/he/she could return with a
supper.
While the Mr. Carson, with his the oldest child was building the field, him the more old man
girl would hold his/her child and her/it Mrs. Carson they would cook such meal of
viands greediness, as, when we consider the appetites, Delmonico never
furnished. It was the life in the "Adirondacks", with the additional advantage