Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . d drawers, of a coarse flan-nel dyed a bright red or blue, and are very commonly worn in thelumberwoods. :|:The cooks assistant. §The popular appellation in camp for the mouth. |[The road-makers. 248 PREPARATIONS FOR BUSINESS. sawyers, etc., arm themselves with, their appropriate imple-ments, and file out into the still, black forest, the road beingdimly discerned by the light of the twinklingstars. The teamsters bring out their animals,a
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . d drawers, of a coarse flan-nel dyed a bright red or blue, and are very commonly worn in thelumberwoods. :|:The cooks assistant. §The popular appellation in camp for the mouth. |[The road-makers. 248 PREPARATIONS FOR BUSINESS. sawyers, etc., arm themselves with, their appropriate imple-ments, and file out into the still, black forest, the road beingdimly discerned by the light of the twinklingstars. The teamsters bring out their animals,all bustling and hastening as if it were a race,which indeed it generally is, to see who shallaccomplish the greatest number of trips for theday. And while all this is on-going there, the; clinking of chains, axes, pevies, and othertools against each other, the crackingof the whip, the crackling of the crispsnow under foot, every exclamation,and even the whistling of the busymen is sharply and quickly,and in a musical, metallic tone,repeated by the near-dwellingechoes. The choppers fell the trees, and frequently measure and ___ mark the trunk, cut ofE. the top and square thebutt. The sawyers fol-low and cut thetrunk into logs usu-~ ^ ally running fromtwelve totwenty-fourfeet inM length. sow THE WORK GOES ON. 249 The swampers make the side-roads to the skidways (the mainroads, as a usual thing, having been constructed during thepreceding fall) and the cross-hauls, or places to draw theteam transversely to the road in loading a log upon a dray.*The skidding teams haul the logs along and place them uponthe skidways. The loaders assist the teamsters in loading thelogs from the skidways upon their heavy sleighs, or sleds, andbinding them there with chains. The teamster drives withhis load to the bank of the stream, and, unwrapping hischains, tumbles his logs down a cleared portion of the bankknown as the roUway. The foreman and one or two super-numeraries are flying about putting in
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