Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOEg FOR CHAPTER Mill, Ljet not ambifeior) rrjock feheirugeful toil,Their tjorrjely joys, and destiny obscure; J^op drarjdeur hjear with a disdairjful §n-)ileT^he sbjopt ar)d simple annals of the poop. Gray: Elegy. InjiTjoptal verge,Such) as the meetirjg soul may pierce,Ir) rjotes witj-) marjy a winding bout©f lir|ked sweetr)es§ lorjg^dpawn out. Milton: VAllegro, • 7^\ Chpistmas play ar)d make good cheep,Fop Chpistrrjas comes but once
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOEg FOR CHAPTER Mill, Ljet not ambifeior) rrjock feheirugeful toil,Their tjorrjely joys, and destiny obscure; J^op drarjdeur hjear with a disdairjful §n-)ileT^he sbjopt ar)d simple annals of the poop. Gray: Elegy. InjiTjoptal verge,Such) as the meetirjg soul may pierce,Ir) rjotes witj-) marjy a winding bout©f lir|ked sweetr)es§ lorjg^dpawn out. Milton: VAllegro, • 7^\ Chpistmas play ar)d make good cheep,Fop Chpistrrjas comes but once a yeap. TussER: The Farmer^s Diet. 254. CHAPTEE XYIII. HE idea had long haunted mymind that it would be a pleas-ant experience for me to man-age a campaign or two in thelumberwoods. I felt that atleast I might in this mannergain some knowledge of menand things in their simplestand rudest conditions, or forms,which otherwise I should belikely to miss. Such knowl-edge might happen to becomeuseful to me in after , as luck would have it,opportunity was now given meto test the matter. There remained upon thetract I had purchased, a con-siderable quantity of pine tim-ber of inferior quality, which had been rejected by thelumbermen as not being of sufficient value to justify theexpense which would be incurred in cutting and conveyingit to mill. Much of this timber, however, was of a charactersuitable for converting into shingles. But for this purposeit was requisite to cull it over very carefully, and at noinconsiderable outlay for extra work of sawing, etc. There was a shingle-mill not a mile distant from theeastern boun
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