DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANAC, 1847: DARING AD

Excerpt from Davy Crockett's Almanac, 1847: Daring Adventures in the Back Woods; Wonderful Scenes in River Life; Manners of Warfare in the West; Feats on the Prairies, in Texas and Oregon As far as my experience goes, It's not well to eat too 'much bear's' fat When one's in a fever. Thar war a pashint at my house, who war very ill With the tipus fever, and wanted a ewet. We giv him a smart chance of whiskey every morning, an brought on the sweat by setting him to climb ing 'up a pine tree an sliding down agin. The whfmkey and the climbing brought en the sweat, and then We put drafts on his feet maid of aqua fortis, and sktmk's marrow, and that cured him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.