J. J. Bell and family and P. M. McPerson

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. He has been peculiarly un- fortunate in respect to broken limbs, as he had one of his legs broken on two different occasions a few years ago and for want of a surgeon set the fractured limb himself and with a degree of success that some surgeons might well be proud of. J. J. Bell and family and P. M. McPerson are in camp on Whitewater opposite Mr. Bush’s residence. They are all having a splendid time and living off the fat land. Hunting and fishing is their chief amusement, the writer being tired, hungry and thirsty, camped with them last Sunday evening. The bill of fare was quail fried a la mode, spring chicken fricassed, stew- ed wild pigeons, Whitewater speckled trout, sweet milk furnished by Mrs. Hanna, Mrs. Bush’s daughter, roasting ears, cabbage and potatoes furnished from Mrs. Bush’s garden, etc., of various kinds too numerous to mention. Sufficient to say that my hunger and thirst was satisfactorily appeased. Mr. McPherson is a genial fellow in camp. He told me he received a scare the second day he was in camp that turned a large number of hairs on his head gray. By invitation of Mr. Bush he went up to the ( 67 )