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I do not know, we’re just in from the woods, and have only a buck we killed this morning, but give us a bag of potatoes a gallon of meal and a pound or two of salt pork and you shall have the deer.

Well now, you’re clever you are, where on airth do you think money’s made here in Sampson, a bag of potatoes why there’s not a bag grown in this township, and as for meal & pork, we’ve to feed on what we get we have, that’s a fact — but if you’re thirsty for corn doings, why my missus will let you have a score or two Johnnies (meal cakes) for the meat, I’m thinking.

I myself saw a bag as he entered the clearing carrying a large basket of potatoes from the heap to the house, so I knew my friend was saying what was not the fact, but pretending to be indifferent about it. I replied — well then, since you have’nt got the things, we’ll clear out — so good day to you. I shouldering my pack off I went. Stop now Stranger, I’d a rather have that buck becos my old mother likes a bit of venison, and maybe we next word underlined: have a few ‘tatoes in the shanty, but there’s no pork I know, that’s a fact.

Oh never mind, we’ll try the next lot —

Well now, you’re rustsome now next word underlined: I think — step in and talk to missis, and she’ll fix it now in no time —

Entering the log house, we found missis in the act washing half a bushel of potatoes, whilst a daughter was preparing a mess of mush (Indian corn kernels) for dinner, the rafters were plentifully furnished too with hams of pork — notwithstanding my friend’s assertion as to the scarcity of these articles in the ? township of Samson. I was introduced with — Here Missis here’s a hunter with some venison now, and if you’ve any pork & tatoes to trade fix it with him somehows, for he’s too hard on me now that’s a fact —

The good woman, a bustling good looking housewife