. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. THE OPEN WOOD FIRE. 51 find a home again in under the innumerable leaves, or beneath a stump, or in a hollow root. Poor little fellows! how they are in terror of a dog, and how cruelly a dog snaps them in his jaws and cracks their fragile little ribs! I have even had them crawl up on the outside of my trouser's leg in fear when my dog was after them, and their mute appeal has never failed of a right THE WOODSHED. It used to be the custom in the early days to build some of the log cabins w
. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. THE OPEN WOOD FIRE. 51 find a home again in under the innumerable leaves, or beneath a stump, or in a hollow root. Poor little fellows! how they are in terror of a dog, and how cruelly a dog snaps them in his jaws and cracks their fragile little ribs! I have even had them crawl up on the outside of my trouser's leg in fear when my dog was after them, and their mute appeal has never failed of a right THE WOODSHED. It used to be the custom in the early days to build some of the log cabins with fireplaces in them so large that a regular log, or section of an entire prostrate tree, could be used as a backlog. In that case there was a door at each end of the fireplace (which ex- tended, practically, completely across one side of the cabin), and a horse would be driven in dragging the log by a chain; the chain would be unhooked, the horse would go out by the other door, and the great log. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Huston, Paul Griswold. Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham; New York, Eaton and Mains
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