THE FOBESTS 



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find themselves out of 

 employment, they say, 

 "Well, I can at least 

 go to the Sugar Pines 

 and make shingles." 

 A few posts are set in 

 the ground, and a 

 single length cut from 

 the first tree felled pro 

 duces boards enough 

 for the walls and roof 

 of a cabin ; all the rest 

 the lumberman makes 

 is for sale, and he is 

 speedily independent. 

 No gardener or hay 

 maker is more sweetly 

 perfumed than these 

 rough mountaineers 

 while engaged in this 

 business,but the havoc 

 they make is most de 

 plorable. 



The sugar, from 

 which the common 

 name is derived, is to 

 my taste the best of 

 sweets better than 

 maple sugar. It ex 

 udes from the heart- 

 wood, where wounds 

 have been made, either 

 by forest fires, or the 



SUGAR PINE ON EXPOSED RIDGE. 



