Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . He threw Frances across his shoulder 70 Frances Slocum 75 Lincolns Pirst Home 80 Half-faced Camp 8;^ Lincolns Indiana Home . .84 A Home-made Bed 85 Cotton 86 Flax 86 A Curious Slate 88 Abraham Lincoln 90 Driving Sheep 92 I did not look back ......... 97 Grandfathers Log Cabin ......... 99 On the Sand Bar 104 The Street Full of Stumps 105 The Old Fireplace 107 Pounding the Corn . 108 Father working Late no A Scarecrow 112 Making Cob Houses 114 Going to the Mill 115 Fanning away the Chaff , . . . . .116 The Blazed Path through the Woods . . 1 . • ^^7
Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . He threw Frances across his shoulder 70 Frances Slocum 75 Lincolns Pirst Home 80 Half-faced Camp 8;^ Lincolns Indiana Home . .84 A Home-made Bed 85 Cotton 86 Flax 86 A Curious Slate 88 Abraham Lincoln 90 Driving Sheep 92 I did not look back ......... 97 Grandfathers Log Cabin ......... 99 On the Sand Bar 104 The Street Full of Stumps 105 The Old Fireplace 107 Pounding the Corn . 108 Father working Late no A Scarecrow 112 Making Cob Houses 114 Going to the Mill 115 Fanning away the Chaff , . . . . .116 The Blazed Path through the Woods . . 1 . • ^^7 The Best Hiding Place 121 Shearing Sheep .122 Coonskin 126 A Fip-^ worth 6| cents 127 A Bit — worth I2|-cents . . 127 A Travelling Preacher 128 Carrying the Mails 130 Towing Canal Boats 131 An Old-fashioned Train of Cars 13^ Stories of Pioneer Life. yi^c Our Land — Present and Past, I. INTRODUCTION. Boys and girls, do you not often ride throughthe country on the cars ? You Hke to go ghdingalong many miles in a few minutes!. WAVING AT THE TRAIN. It is pleasant to look out from the car windowa: the beautiful fields, meadows, and woods ! Youlike to watch the horses, sheep, and cows runaway as the train goes rushing by 1 2 Stories of Pioneer Life. Sometimes children come out of the farm-houses and wave at the cars. You are sorry forthem because they are not riding on the cars, also ! When the train stops at the little towns andthe large noisy cities, you enjoy watching thepeople, who get on and off the train. You won-der where they live and where they are going. I am sure that our country seems very beauti-ful and interesting to you. Did you* ever thinkthat it did not always look as it does now ? Lessthan one hundred fifty years ago the central partof it was a wilderness. No one could have seen the country then froma car window. There were no cars, no railroads,no good roads of any kind. There were no farms,no towns, no houses even, such as we now white people lived i
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