CHAPTER V.

The Skill and Enterprise of Lumbermen.--Method of taking Logs down Hills and Mountains.--Dry Sluice.--Stern Anchor.--Giant Mountain Steps.--Alpine Lumbering.--Warping a Team down Steeps.--Trial of Skill and Strength.--The rival Load.--Danger and Inconvenience of Hills in Logging Roads.--A distressing Accident.--Solemn Conclusion of a Winter's Work.--Some of the Perils attendant upon Lumbering.-- A fearful Wound.--Narrow Escape.--The buried Cap.--The safest Way of Retreat.--A Sabbath in the Logging Camp.--Sunday Morning Naps.--Domestic Camp Duties.--Letter Writing.--Recreations.--Sable Traps.--Deer and Moose.--Bear Meat.--A rare Joke.--Moose Hunt.-- Bewildered Hunters.--Extraordinary Encounter.--Conclusion of Sabbath in the Woods 100