Worcester legends : incidents, anecdotes, reminiscences, etc., connected with the early history of Worcester, Mass., and vicinity . Apples and Cider. EARLY DAYS IN THE OR many years after the Indians ceased to trouble thesettlement the best energies of the inhabitants were givento the work of subduing the wilderness. The story ofthese early labors has a peculiar fascination to us, theirdescendants, although lacking the same interest elicited bythe recital of Indian atrocities. The wilderness lay before them, the lonely and solemn woods used for generations by the Indians as a hunt
Worcester legends : incidents, anecdotes, reminiscences, etc., connected with the early history of Worcester, Mass., and vicinity . Apples and Cider. EARLY DAYS IN THE OR many years after the Indians ceased to trouble thesettlement the best energies of the inhabitants were givento the work of subduing the wilderness. The story ofthese early labors has a peculiar fascination to us, theirdescendants, although lacking the same interest elicited bythe recital of Indian atrocities. The wilderness lay before them, the lonely and solemn woods used for generations by the Indians as a hunting J ground, the stillness at last broken by the ringing tones of the axe and the sound of falling timber, accompanied by the echoes of thevoices of the woodmen at their work; then came the time for burning thedry trunks and branches, the planting of barley and corn, the building of houses and barns, walls, fields, and roads,and in the course of time, when the stump-age had become sufficiently decaj^ed, re-moving the charred stumps and roots bythe use of oxen and heavy chains, thenlevelling the land, removing the stones, andat last introducing the plough; after thisfollowe
Size: 1282px × 1950px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidworces, booksubjectlegends
