. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . is comrades thought he would be drownedin the rushing river, or crushed by the logs—his chance of escape washardly one in a thousand ; and as he disappeared no one expected to seehim again. 13ut, to their great surprise, he came out without a scratch,and was soon among them on shore without the least sign of alarm onhis face. Nearly every season he passed through some great peril, and heused to quote an old adage that those who were born to be hanged wouldnever be drowned. THE MAN WITH A CHARMED LIFE. 11; One of the boys asked if he veri
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . is comrades thought he would be drownedin the rushing river, or crushed by the logs—his chance of escape washardly one in a thousand ; and as he disappeared no one expected to seehim again. 13ut, to their great surprise, he came out without a scratch,and was soon among them on shore without the least sign of alarm onhis face. Nearly every season he passed through some great peril, and heused to quote an old adage that those who were born to be hanged wouldnever be drowned. THE MAN WITH A CHARMED LIFE. 11; One of the boys asked if he verified the correctness of the antiquatedsaying. Assuredly he did, answered Joe. He became weary of river-driving, and went to California. There he did not prosper in any honestpursuit, and so he took to the road ; that is, he became a day he was caught while robbing a stage-coach, and the angry pas-sengers hung him on a tree by the way-side, after a trial that was said tohave lasted not more than five minutes. Some of his old companions,. SHIPPING LUMBER. when they heard of the manner of his death, said he was never drownedon the river, because he was destined to perish in a less honorable way. But what becomes of the logs when the river-men get through withthem? Harry inquired. They are cut into planks and boards in the saw-mills near are some of the mills that keep as many as a hundred saws in oper-ation, and in the busy season they run them day and night. The lumberis loaded into ships, and sent wherever it is wanted. You have Mainelumber in JSTew York and nearly every other city of the Atlantic coast,and it goes also to foreign countries, though not in great quantities. But 11G THE YOUNG NIMRODS. I will not undertake to give you the figures showing the extent of thetrade, mainly because I do not happen to have them at hand. Perhapsbefore you leave the State you may have an opportunity to visit some ofthe saw-mills, and see for yourselves how
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