CHAPTER THIRTY 339

KING SPRUCE CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Up in “Castle Cut ’Em” 1 II. The Heiress of “Oaklands” 17 III. The Making of a “Chaney Man” 27 IV. The Boss of the “Busters” 35 V. During the Pugwash Hang-up 55 VI. As Fought before the “It-’ll-git-ye Club” 62 VII. On Misery Gore 78 VIII. The Torch, and the Lighting of It 92 IX. By Order of Pulaski D. Britt 104 X. “Ladder” Lane’s Soirée 114 XI. In the Barony of “Stumpage John” 127 XII. The Code of Larrigan-land 142 XIII. The Red Throat of Pogey 153 XIV. The Message of “Prophet Eli” 164 XV. Between Two on Jerusalem 174 XVI. In the Path of the Big Wind 181 XVII. The Affair at Durfy’s Camp 198 XVIII. The Old Soubungo Trail 217 XIX. The Home-makers of Enchanted 230 XX. The Ha’nt of the Umcolcus 241 XXI. The Man Who Came from Nowhere 256 XXII. The Hostage of the Great White Silence 270 XXIII. In the Matter of John Barrett’s Daughter 278 XXIV. The Cheese Rind that Needed Sharp Teeth 293 XXV. Sharpening Teeth on Pulaski Britt’s Whetstone 303 XXVI. The Devil of the Hempen Strands 312 XXVII. The “Canned Thunder” of Castonia 324 XXVIII. “’Twas Done by Tommy Thunder” 341 XXIX. The Parade Past Rodburd Ide’s Platform 352 XXX. The Pact with King Spruce 361 ILLUSTRATIONS “‘I KNOW YOUR HEART’” Frontispiece “WADE STOOD ABOVE THE FALLEN FOE” Facing p. 70 “WRITHING AT HIS BONDS, HIS CONTORTED FACE TOWARDS THE RED FLAMES GALLOPING UP THE VALLEY” 172 “‘WHAT I SAY ON THIS RIVER GOES!’” 334

UP IN MAINE

CONTENTS

PREFACE

'ROUND HOME

AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG

OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT

CY NYE, PREVARICATOR

UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE

“PLUG”

THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW

HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS

HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH

GRAMPY’S LULLABY

HOSKINS’S COW

AN OLD STUN’ WALL

THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP

EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING

RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY

LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB

THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA

SON HAS GOT THE DEED

AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER

BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”

“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”

I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL

THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW

THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW

MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH

PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP

TAKIN’ COMFORT

EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS

LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE

GRAMPY SINGS A SONG

UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT

THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER

MORAL.

ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE

THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S

“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”

’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”

TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN

CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”

GOOD-BY, LOBSTER

CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS

ON THE OLD COAST TUB

TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER

DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN

THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS

THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE

THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH

FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP

THE SONG OF THE SAW

DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS

REAR O’ THE DRIVE

MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK

OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS

HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE

MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK

HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE

THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP

UP IN MAINE

A HAIL TO THE HUNTER

HOSSES

THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK

TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE

HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE

B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR

“JEST A LIFT”

BART OF BRIGHTON

GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL

THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL

THE PADDYWHACKS

THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY

THE MYSTIC BAND

AT THE OLD “GOOL”

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