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 Brunswick

CHAPTER I.

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"Breaking Up."--Grotesque Parading down River.--Rum and Intemperance. --Religious Rites profaned.--River-driving on Temperance Principles. --The first Experiment.--A spiritual Song 149