Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers, and Wild-wood Adventure ; with Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New BrunswickHarper & Bros., 1851 - 259 pages |
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Page 185 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
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Page 101 - State, frozen by the intense cold of a northern winter, present a' wide field to the lovers of this pastime. Often would I bind on my skates, and glide away up the glittering river and wind each mazy streamlet that flowed beneath its fetters on...
Page 19 - But there is yet another benefit which this tree presents us, — that its very leaves, which make a natural and most agreeable canopy all the summer, being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world, to lay under our quilts instead of straw...
Page 102 - I heard the twigs on the shore snap as if from the tread of some animal, and the blood rushed back to my forehead with a bound that made my skin burn, and I felt relieved that I had to contend with things of earthly and not spiritual mold, as I first fancied.
Page 104 - ... seemed to hiss forth their breath with a sound truly horrible, when an involuntary motion on my part turned me out of my course. The wolves close behind, unable to stop, and as unable to turn on...
Page 102 - ... through the silent woods, and I stood listening to the echo that reverberated again and again, until all was hushed. Suddenly a sound arose — it seemed to me to come from beneath the ice; it sounded low and tremulous at first, until it ended in one wild yell.
Page 102 - ... my energies returned, and I looked around me for some means of escape. The moon shone through the opening at the mouth of the creek by which I had entered the forest, and, considering this the best means of escape, I darted toward it like an arrow.
Page 101 - I turned into it to explore its course. Fir and hemlock of a century's growth met overhead, and formed an archway radiant with frost-work. All was dark within ; but I was young and fearless, and as I peered into...