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

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Tokens of Winter.--The Anticipation.--Introduction of Team.-- Difficulties attending it.--Uncomfortable Boating.--The Contrast. --Method of crossing Streams and Rivers.--The Docility of the Ox. --Facilities of Turnpikes.--Stopping-places.--Arrival.--An Adventure.--Ten Oxen in the Ice.--Method of taking them Out.--An uncomfortable Night.--The midnight Excursion.--Oxen running at large in the Wilderness.--Developments of Memory.--Logging.--Division of Labor.--How to manage in the absence of a Cook.--"Uncle Nat."-- Anecdote.--Felling Pines.--Ingenuity of Choppers.--Preparatory Arrangements.--The Bob-sled.--Method of Operation described.-- The Excitement.--Comparison.--Immediate Length of Pine-trees. --Conclusion 83