Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers, and Wild-wood Adventure ; with Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New BrunswickHarper & Bros., 1851 - 259 páginas |
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Página 197 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Página 205 - ... that all the produce of the forest in logs, lumber, timber, boards, staves, or shingles, or of agriculture, not being manufactured, grown on any of those parts of the State of Maine watered by the river St.
Página 15 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Página 197 - Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
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Página 114 - The wolves, having regained their feet, sprang directly towards me. The race was renewed for twenty yards up the stream ; they were already close on my back, when I glided round and dashed directly past my pursuers.
Página 111 - State, frozen by the intense cold of a northern winter, present a' wide field to the lovers of this pastime. Often would I bind on my skates, and glide away up the glittering river and wind each mazy streamlet that flowed beneath its fetters on...
Página 128 - In a few moments, all was still, and I felt the warm breath of my faithful dog, as he licked my wounds. Clearing my eyes from gore, I saw my late adversary dead at my feet, and Bravo, 'my own Bravo,' as the heroine of a modern novel would say, standing over me.
Página 205 - ... said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the Province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the said Province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the Upper St.
Página 128 - I still cheered the dog that, dastard-like, fled before the infuriated animal, which, seemingly despising such an enemy, again threw himself upon me. Again did I succeed in throwing my arms around his antlers, but not until he had inflicted several deep and dangerous wounds upon my head and face, cutting to the very bone.