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energy for a second attack. So great 
was the heat in fact, that it seemed 
literally to scorch through one’s clothing 
and yet the smoke owing to the direction 
of the wind (and in this we were more 
than fortunate) blew away from our 
position and kept the sparks dropping 
on the leeward side. 
Primarily we were intent on saving 
a strip of green timber which bordered 
on the shore of the pond. To this end, 
therefore, we worked and with the 
swampy log road to aid us our efforts 
were at length rewarded with success. 
All the while Rube toiled with 
methodical persistency. Nov/ he would 
beat out a little snake-like stream of fire, 
now clear the line of a pile of dry tree 
tops, or dump water on a bed of glowing 
coals. Every once in so often the blaze 
would seize upon a spruce or tamarack, 
gummy with the exudations of pitch, and 
in an instant the whole tree would be 
wrapped ill a mass of towering flame 
and sparks. The sight was awe-inspir¬ 
ing and magnificent. Yet how it sick¬ 
ened with its sense of ruthless devasta¬ 
tion and waste. Especially heart¬ 
rending it was to see the ravager lay 
hold of a great birch four or five feet 
in diameter, and to stand by knowing 
you were helpless to prevent its destruc¬ 
tion. 
DY one o’clock we concluded it was 
advisable to move our activities to 
another point where the fire still threat¬ 
ened to demolish a section of the pond’s 
shore line. But in this locality, although 
we succeeded after several hours of 
labor in keeping the blaze out of the 
green timber, the realization soon came 
to us that there was no possible chance 
of being able to check or control the 
general course of the fire. Indeed the 
woods resembled nothing more or less 
than a red smoking inferno. And now 
especially did the uncanny voices of a 
forest fire commence to make themselves 
heard. Weird whistlings, the hissing 
splutter of countless sparks, the crack¬ 
ling of resinous limbs, the dead thud of 
a fallen stub or fire-eaten branch, con¬ 
tinuously assailed our ears. Now and 
then would come the louder and more 
startling crash of a big tree, into whose 
trunk and roots the flames had bur¬ 
rowed until only a hollow shell of white 
hot coals remained. And always like 
an undertone of the sea, there fell upon 
one’s hearing the roar of the confla¬ 
gration itself — implacable, persistent 
terrifying. 
Throughout the day we saw no living 
creature save one large Canadian hare 
which fled from under a brush pile be¬ 
fore the onsweeping fire; and althc 
doubtlessly not more than one or twe 
deer had been trapped to their death, 1 
thought often with sorrow of the man} 
little wood folk—chipmunks, squirrels 
mice and birds that must necessaril} 
have perished in the conflagration. Ol 
their vernal homes and playground; 
nothing now remained but a gray smok¬ 
ing ruin. And in all probability along 
with these smaller inhabitants of the 
forest there had fallen also coons, mink 
marten, and hedge-hog.; — the l'attei 
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