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"A backwoods superstition " began Simpson, moving hastily toward the tent in order to shake off the hand of the guide that clutched his arm. "Come, come, hurry up for God's sake, and get the lantern going! It's time we were in bed and asleep if we're going to be up with the sun tomorrow...." The guide was close on his heels. "I'm coming," he answered out of the darkness, "I'm coming."
Tingley hasn't a clear title to the island?" demanded the backwoods boy, looking at the girl of the Red Mill sharply. "Why should that make a difference?" asked Ruth, coolly. "Well you know how some of these rich folks be," returned the boy, dropping his gaze. "When it comes to hittin' their pocketbooks " "That has nothing to do with it. Right is right." "Uh-huh!" grunted Jerry.
Their labour is wealth, not exhaustion; it produces content, not home-sickness and despair. What the backwoods of Canada are to the industrious and ever-to-be-honoured sons of honest poverty, and what they are to the refined and polished gentleman, these sketches have endeavoured to show.
They prized the knowledge and learning they themselves had been forced to do without; and many a backwoods woman by thrift and industry, by the sale of her butter and cheese, and the calves from her cows, enabled her husband to give his sons good schooling, and perhaps to provide for some favored member of the family the opportunity to secure a really first-class education.
The woodsman lifted his eyebrows in some surprise at the question. "Well, now, if I don't I'd oughter," said he, "seein' as how I've kinder lived round amongst 'em all my life. If I know anything, it's the backwoods an' all what pertains to that same!" "Yes, you'd oughter know more about them than I do!" assented Mrs. Gammit, with a touch of severity which seemed to add "and see that you do!"
No, I don't guess you need to count on me bein' more than I am." Then suddenly he wheeled about and looked from one face to the other; and there was a faint hint of defiance in his voice, as he finished; "I got an idea, too, that the backwoods needs men same as the cities. I don't see how there ever could BE a city even, if it wasn't for the men what cleared the brush.
Wild-geese congregate in multitudes on the islands in the Mississippi, and at night send forth the most wild and piercing cries. Our hostess was one of those sylvan Amazons who could handle any thing, from the hunting-knife to the ponderous axe; and she dressed in the true sylph-like costume of the backwoods.
All through the United States the finances were in utter disorder, the medium of exchange being a jumble of almost worthless paper currency, and of foreign coin of every kind, while the standard of value varied from State to State. But in the backwoods conditions were even worse, for there was hardly any money at all. Transactions were accomplished chiefly by the primeval method of barter.
Indeed, his reserve and brevity of speech emulated Agatha's own; so they got on together ill enough, until by some happy chance they lighted on the subject of Canada and the Backwoods. Where is there boy or girl of romantic imagination who did not, at some juvenile period of existence, revel in descriptions of American forest-life?
The cold increased by and by, and icy wind roared among the peaks and brought a skim of snow. Then Prescott shivered and pined for the lowlands and the haunts of men. He descended at last from the peaks and entered a tiny hamlet of the backwoods, where he found among other things a two-weeks-old Richmond newspaper.
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