...As I expected, the crop was overgrown and useless: the sile is too rich, and planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. I had a good-sized sow killed in that same...don't plant any more: natur intended Arkansaw for a hunting-ground, and I go according to natur." The questioner who thus elicited the description of our...

...rich, and planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. " I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottomland. The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down to eat where she slept at night. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and lay down on them...

...I expected, the crop was overgrown and useless : the sile is too rich, and planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. I had a good-sized sow killed in that same...eat. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and laid down on them: before morning, the corn shot up, and the percussion killed her dead. I don't plant...

...took it down where she slept at night to eat. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and laid down on them : before morning, the corn shot up, and...don't plant any more : natur intended Arkansaw for a hunting-ground, and I go according to natur." The questioner who thus elicited the description of our...

...Arkansas" ("the creation state, the finishing up country"), "the sile is too rich, and planting ... is dangerous. I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottom land. The old thief stole an car of corn, and took it down to where she slept at night to eat. Well, she left a grain or two on...

...mounds and his beets for cedar stumps. The soil was so rich he declared, that planting was downright dangerous. "I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottom land," he explained. "The old thief stole a ear of corn, and took it down where she slept at night to eat....

...creation state, this wild overgrown paradise ? How does he retain his humanity ? And what does he eat ? I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottom...The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down to eat where she slept at night. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and lay down on them:...

...naturally fecund that he has found it too dangerous to be a farmer: " 'I had a good-sized sow killed. . . . The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down to eat where she slept at night. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and lay down on them:...

...planting in "Arkansaw" could be plumb dangerous: "I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottom-land. The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down...corn shot up, and the percussion killed her dead." But the violent exaggeration of much nineteenth-century American humor was often the whole point. The...

...rich, and planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. "I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottomland. The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down to eat where she slept at night. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and lay down on them:...