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said, uncursed, fresh from the hand of the Creator. To write of 

 those things makes the hustling city seem dull and irksome. 

 Fain would I hie away once more to those pleasant pastime lahors. 

 Happily, all tastes are not alike. Yet there are few who, on 

 entering a beautiful native forest, would not experience delight ; 

 the varieties of trees set out by the hand of Nature, their grace- 

 ful forms and spreading branches interlocked with neighborly 

 affection and recognition ; the harmonious confusion of under- 

 growth ; the beautiful mosses, the ever-varying surface — old age, 

 manhood and youth, childhood and infancy — massive trunks and 

 little sprouts ; the towering Pine and creeping Winter-green, in- 

 termingled by the artless genii of these wild retreats, all combined, 

 serve to explain the attachment of the Aborigines to their forest 

 abodes, and give to savage life the power of enchantment. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Tokens of Winter. — The Anticipation. — Introduction of Team. — Difficulties 

 attending it. — Uncomfortable Boating. — The Contrast. — Method of i 

 ing Streams and Rivers. — The Docility of the Ox. — Facilities of Turnpikes. 

 — Stopping-places. — Arrival. — An Adventure. — Ten Oxen in the lee. — 

 Method of taking them Out. — An uncomfortable Night. — The midnight Ex- 

 cursion. — Oxen running at large in the Wilderness. — Development 

 Memory. — Logging. — Division of Labor. — How to manage in the al - 

 of a Cook. — "Uncle Nat." — Anecdote. — Felling Fines. — [j 

 Choppers. — Preparator omenta. — The Bob-sled. — .Method of Op- 



eration described. — The Excitement. — Comparison. — Immedi 

 of Pine-trees. — Gondii 



r>v the time these arrangements are made, Beriona indicati 

 of winter appear in cold, freezing nights and lighl falls of snow. 

 It is now about lime to look for the arrival of the team and ex- 

 tra hands. 



