. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . what in other sections of the country arecalled the great North Woods, and in their own neigh-borhood the great South Woods, can readily imaginewhat were the geological and scenic peculiarities ofFowler township. Bare, sterile, famished-looking, asfar as horticultural and herbaceous crops are concerned,yet rich in pasture and abounding in herds—with vastrocks crested and plumed with rich growths of blackbalsam, maple, and spruce timber, and with hugeboulders scattered carelessly over its surface and ma
. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . what in other sections of the country arecalled the great North Woods, and in their own neigh-borhood the great South Woods, can readily imaginewhat were the geological and scenic peculiarities ofFowler township. Bare, sterile, famished-looking, asfar as horticultural and herbaceous crops are concerned,yet rich in pasture and abounding in herds—with vastrocks crested and plumed with rich growths of blackbalsam, maple, and spruce timber, and with hugeboulders scattered carelessly over its surface and mar-gining its streams, St. Lawrence County presents to-day features of savage grandeur as wild and imposingas it did ere the foot of a trapper had profaned itsprimeval forests. Yet its farms and its dwellings are numerous, itsvillages and towns possess all the accompaniments ofmodern civilization, the spires of its churches indicatethat the gentle influences of religion are not forgotten,and there, as elsewhere, the indomitable will of manhas won from the wilderness a living and a PUBLIC LIBRAE? AVT4M, LtiKTILKH *• CHAPTER II. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF WILLARD GLAZIER. The infant stranger.—A mothers prayers.—uBe just before youare generous.—Careful training.—Willard Glaziers first bat-tle.—A narrow escape.—Facing the foe.—The happy days ofchildhood. — The boy is father to the man. THE Glazier Homestead, as we have said, is uponthe main road leading from Little York to Ful-lerville. It is a substantial and comfortable farm-house, with no pretension to architectural beauty, but,nevertheless, is a sightly object in a pleasant land-scape. Standing back two hundred feet from theroad, in a grove of gigantic elms, with a limpid brookof spring water a short distance to the right, and richfields of herd grass stretching off rearwards towardsthe waters of the Oswegatchie, which hurry along ontheir journey of forty miles to the St. Lawrence River,the old house is su
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