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What was much more important, the mouth of the Mississippi was commanded by the important seaport of New Orleans, which was accessible to fleets, which could readily be garrisoned by water, and which was the capital of a region that by backwoods standards passed for well settled.
"To think," said the latter the next morning at breakfast, "to think that the backwoods of America should have turned us out such a little specimen of " "Of what, uncle?" said Ellen, laughing. "Ah, I shall not tell you that," said he.
I am LIVING here in the backwoods." "But, your real name? Won't you tell me your name? I must know how to address you." "Oh, my name is Susan E. Wakefield MISS Wakefield, if you please. I shall be seventy-one years old the eighteenth day of next November. And you must call me 'Auntie Sue, just as every one else does." "Wakefield Wakefield where have I seen that name?"
John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his looks, that he was a grazier or farmer from the backwoods of some western State doubtless Ohio and afterward when he dropped into his personal history and I discovered that he WAS a cattle-raiser from interior Ohio, I was so pleased with my own penetration that I warmed toward him for verifying my instinct.
Amusing also are the sketches of the aristocratic settlers in Policy and Passion and Outlaw and Lawmaker who try to apply the principles of æstheticism to the crude surroundings of their new-made homes in the backwoods Dolph Bassett with his ornamental bridges and rockeries and his grand piano; Lord Horace Gage explaining with his maxim, 'If we can't be comfortable, let us at least be artistic, a neglect to fill up the chinks in his slab hut.
A very long business it proved to-day, for, the weather being warm and comfortable, the red men and women seemed to thoroughly enjoy sitting round at their ease and taking time to consider whether they wished to be purchasers or not. But Katherine was patient and tactful too. After all, the training of a teacher is not lost in the buying and selling of a backwoods store.
A large majority of these emigrants were officers of the army and navy, with their families: a class perfectly unfitted, by their previous habits and standing in society, for contending with the stern realities of emigrant life in the backwoods.
Thus each of the backwoods commonwealths, during its short-lived term of absolute freedom, reproduced as its governmental system that of the old colonial county, increasing the powers of the court, and changing the justices into the elective representatives of an absolute democracy. The civil head, the chairman of the court or committee, was also usually the military head, the colonel-commandant.
I b'lieve that to be the feelosophy o' the whole affair, and I don't b'lieve that nobody o' common edication I don't mean school edication, but backwoods edication would go for to think otherwise. Wot say you, Waller?" "Sartinly not," replied the individual thus appealed to. Big Waller had a deep reverence for the supposed wisdom of his friend Bounce.
As Wash was climbing down from the wagon, he caught sight of Young Matt standing in the door of the mill shed. "Hello, Matt," he called cheerfully; "I ain't a lookin' fer you t' day; 'tend t' you some other time. Got more important business jest now." Young Matt made no reply, nor did he move to interfere. In the backwoods every man must fight his own battles, so long as he fights with men.
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