CONTENTS. IX 



ing a Seat. — Cooking : superior Method of Baking. — The nightly Camp 

 Fire. — Liabilities from taking Fire. — A Camp consumed. — Men burned to 

 Death. — Enjoyment. — The new Camp: Dedication. — A Song. — A Story. 

 — New Order in Architecture. — Ox Hovel. — Substitute for Lime. — The 

 Devotedness of the Teamster. — Fat and lean Cattle. — Swamping Roads. — 

 Clumps of Pine. — The points of Interest in a Logging Road. — The Team- 

 ster's Path. — Regret. — The peculiar Enjoyment of Men thus engaged 



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 CHAPTER IV. 

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

 attending it. — Uncomfortable Boating. — The Contrast. — Method of cross- 

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

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

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

 cursion. — Oxen running at large in the Wilderness. — Developments of 

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

 of a Cook. — "Uncle Nat." — Anecdote. — Felling Pines. — Ingenuity of 

 Choppers. — Preparatory Arrangements. — The Bob-sled. — Method of Op- 

 eration described. — The Excitement. — Comparison. — Immediate Length 

 of Pine-trees. — Conclusion 83 



CHAPTER V. 

 The Skill and Enterprise of Lumbermen. — Method of taking Logs down 

 Hills and Mountains. — Dry Sluice. — Stem Anchor. — Giant Mountain 

 Steps. — Alpine Lumbering. — Warping a Team down Steeps. — Trial of 

 Skill and Strength. — The rival Load. — Danger and Inconvenience of Hills 

 in Logging Roads. — A distressing Accident. — Solemn Conclusion of a Win- 

 ter's Work. — Some of the Perils attendant upon Lumbering. — A fearful 

 Wound. — Narrow Escape. — The buried Cap. — The safest Way of Retreat. 

 — A Sabbath in the Logging Camp. — Sunday Morning Naps. — Domestic 

 Camp Duties. — Letter Writing. — Recreations. — Sable Traps. — Deer and 

 Moose. — Bear Meat. — A rare Joke. — Moose Hunt. — Bewildered Hunters. 

 — Extraordinary Encounter. — Conclusion of Sabbath in the Woods.. 100 



CHAPTER VL 

 Camp Life. — Winter Evenings. — An Evening in Camp. — Characters. — 

 Card-playing. — A Song. — Collision with wild Beasts. — The unknown An- 

 imal in a Dilemma. — "Indian Devil." — The Aborigines' Terror. — A shock- 



