prairie fowl

One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.

He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.

Water-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air.

This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.

Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.

Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.