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 III.

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Method of constructing Camp and Hovel.--Timber.--Covering.--Arrangement of Interior.--The Bed.-- Deacon Seat.--Ingenious Method of making 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 Teamster's Path.--Regret.--The peculiar Enjoyment of Men thus engaged 65