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Whoa 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 ; 

 ' We've enough to eat,' to drink, to wear, content thi-ough 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 

 sight. 



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

 arrested by a track of uncommon size and appearance. It was 

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

 snow where it would bear me. I noticed where the creature 

 stepped over a large fallen tree about two feet and a half high. 

 A light snow several inches deep covered the log, which he did 

 not even brush with his belly as he passed over it. From the 

 nature of the track, I knew he did not jump. His legs could not 

 have been less than three feet in length. After this discovery, I 

 made my way to where the rest of the crew were at M'ork with 

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

 has been seen by many diflerent persons and parties, at places 



