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When winter's snows are melted, and the ice-bound streams are free, 

 We'll run our logs to market, then haste our friends to see ; 

 How kindly true hearts welcome us, our wives and children too, 

 We will spend with these the summer, and once more a lumbering go ; 

 And a lumbering we'll go, so a lumbering we will go, 

 We will spend with these the summer, and once more a lumbering go. 

 And when upon the long-hid soil the white Pines disappear, 

 We will cut the other forest trees, and sow whereon we clear ; 

 Our grain shall wave o'er valleys rich, our herds bedot the hills, 

 When our feet no more are hurried on to tend the driving mills; 

 Then no more a lumbering go, so no more a lumbering go, 

 When our feet no more are hurried on to tend the driving mills. 

 'When our youthful days are ended,' we will cease from winter toils, 

 And each one through the summer warm will till the virgin soil ; 

 i We've enough to eat,' to drink, to wear, content through life to go, 

 Then we'll tell our wild adventures o'er, and no more a lumbering go; 

 And no more a lumbering go, so no more a lumbering go, 

 O ! we'll tell our wild adventures o'er, and no more a lumbering go." 



Our winter quarters and employments not unfrequently bring 

 us into collision with wild animals of a formidable character. 

 Of these the " Indian devil," or a species of the catamount, is 

 chief. We often track animals of whom we have never gained 

 Bight. 



Passing along one day in pursuit of timber, my attention was 



arrested by a track of uncommon size and appearance. [1 



round, and about the size of a hat crown, and penetrated the 



ere it would bear me. I noticed where the creature 



Bteppe ■■■ [alien tree about two feet and a balfhigh. 



b i inches deep covered t! ich he did 



\en brush with his belly as he pa i the 



nature of the track, I knew he did no1 jump. Bii iegt could not 

 have been Less than three feel in Length. After this d 

 made my way to where the rest of the crew were at work with 

 rjghl good will. A similar track, of probably this same animal, 

 has b by many different persons ami parties, at p 



