RK-045

our [illegible] birds & animals 'Tis very pleasant to watch a sand hill crane dance or heare the mournful boom of our Prairie Cocks but I want to see and hear more, I am enam oured of there fine southern ^woods, swamps and boyous. Teeming with rattlesnakes, alligators ^{reptiles & [illegible]} birds and insects. Man can't get there to spoil nature [Illegible] r rattlesnakes & alligators rule [illegible] supreme