Rabbit Hash

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by John Smith A Float on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwarts Chapter 15 The Story of North Bend, The Shakes, Driftwood, Rabbit Hash, A Side Trip to Big Bone Lick Near Petersburg, Kentucky Friday, May 25th This morning, an hour before noon, as we looked upon the river from the top of the Cincinnati wharf, a wild scene presented itself.

The shore up and down, as far as could be seen, was densely lined with packets and freighters.

Beyond them, the great stream, here half a mile wide, was rushing past like a mill race, and black with all manner of drift, some of it formed into great rafts, from each of which sprawled a network of huge branches.

The wreckers, men, women, and children alike, are so engaged in their grab-back game that they have no eyes for us.

Unobserved, we watch them at close range and speculate upon their respective chances.

Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, 502 miles, is a crude hamlet of a hundred souls lying nestled in a green amphitheater.

A horsepower ferry runs over to the larger village of Rising Sun, its Indiana neighbor.