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Updated: May 11, 2025
He would speak to the major with a belt, white on the one side, green on the other. When he turned the belt and presented it wrong end first, let every warrior kill an English soldier, beginning with the officers. At the sound let every warrior outside the council use gun and hatchet. On May 5 a French settler's wife crossed the river to buy maple-sugar and deer-meat at the Ottawa village.
"I wonder who taught the Indians how to make maple-sugar?" asked the child. "I do not know," replied the nurse. The sugar-maple when wounded in March or April, yields a great deal of sweet liquor.
It was at that place that the agents commissioned to make up the quota for the different companies and traders found the material for their selections. Instances have been known of their submitting cheerfully to fare upon fresh fish and maple-sugar for a whole winter, when cut off from other supplies.
Whenever he disturbs a maple-sugar camp in the spring, he always upsets the buckets of syrup, and tramples round in the sticky sweets, wasting more than he eats. The bear's manners are thoroughly disagreeable. As soon as my enemy's head was down, I started and ran. Somewhat out of breath, and shaky, I reached my faithful rifle. It was not a moment too soon.
The famous "palm-wine" is merely the sap of the toddy-palm, collected much as is the sap from the maple-sugar groves of America, although the palm-juice is generally, if not always, obtained from the upper part of the trunk.
Bartlett, Kate and the professor insisted on accompanying him and Marthy decided to go, too, not only that she might be able to say she was on hand in case of interesting developments, but because she was afraid to be left in the house alone. Toward morning, David, spent and haggard, wandered into a little maple-sugar shed that belonged to one of the neighbors.
And, as we haven't much room in the kitchen, we will just set the dish of dough and the frosting out on the window sill, where they won't be in our way. As soon as we have the tins greased we will make the buns and put them in the oven to bake." So the nice, sweet, good-smelling and good-tasting batter and the dish of maple-sugar frosting were set outside on the window sill.
The lid of this box was fastened down with a narrow slip of deer skin, Lady Mary cut the fastening, and raised the lid "Nurse, it is only yellow sand, how droll, to send me a box of sand!" "It is not sand, taste it, Lady Mary." "It is sweet it is sugar! Ah! now I know what it is that this kind old squaw has sent me, it is maple-sugar, and is very nice I will go and show it to mamma."
She loaded us with cakes, good wishes, and messages to her sister Dixon and the children. We journeyed pleasantly along through a country beautiful in spite of its wintry appearance. There was a house at Buffalo Grove, at which we stopped for half an hour, and where a nice-looking young girl presented us with some maple-sugar of her own making.
After he had got his breath again Cuffy began to nibble at his snow mittens. And little by little to his delight he removed them. And still he kept on nibbling at his paws, and yes! he actually put them right inside his mouth and sucked them. He forgot all about his manners, for underneath the snow he found the most beautiful, waxy maple-sugar you can imagine. Each paw was just one big lollypop!
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