first-felled

Updated: June 24, 2025

Now, the settler's first-felled tree is to him like a schoolboy's first Latin declension, or a lawyer's first brief the pledge of ability, the earnest of future performances. Every success braces the nerves of mind, as well as the muscles of body. A victory over the woodland was embodied in that fallen maple. But Andy was so near getting smashed in the coming down of his tree, that Mr.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement