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Updated: May 6, 2025
He was poor, like all the rest of us of that generation and the next, and did the usual things to advance himself, the things in successful men's biographies. He studied by the kitchen fire, not by pine knots, I fancy that probably was the formula of a time just earlier.
It was in the afternoon, about three o'clock. He walked to the end of the shadow thrown by the pine-tree, and fixed his arrow in the ground, measured the length of the arrow, and then the length of the shadow thrown by it; then measuring the shadow of the pine, he deducted from it in the same proportion as the difference between the length of the arrow, and the length of its shadow, and gave me the result.
But its citizens were soon to write a page of heroism and valor in their country's history. "Of course Machias is to have a liberty pole," continued Mr. Weston. "It has been so decided by a vote in a town meeting; and Dan and I will start off in good season to-morrow morning to look for the finest pine sapling in the forest.
Balaam dismounted, and picking up his six-shooter, took the rope off Pedro's neck and drove him slowly down toward where the wood began. Its interior was already dim, and Balaam saw that here must be their stopping-place to-night, since there was no telling how wide this pine strip might extend along the trail before they could come out of it and reach another suitable camping-ground.
"We must have a few splinters of light-wood," he said; "but after the fire is once started, we mustn't put any more pine on." So saying, he split off a few splinters from a piece of rich heart-pine, which Southern people call "light-wood," because the negroes use it instead of lamps or candles. "Come now," said Sam, "its nearly noon, and I think I can get fire for you.
This country pleases people so much that they come over here from a long way off; they come as far as the pine hill and then they go away again. That is all I know about them. He turned the horses homeward and was already forgetting the Germans. The cow and the field were engaging all his thoughts.
A line of meal 2 inches in length running east and west was sprinkled on the apex of the semicircle, and upon this line the black tube was laid. A bit of meal was sprinkled on the tube and a quantity over the pine boughs of this small shrine.
This is our way." And he led Juanita rather hastily away. At nine o'clock they passed the last shoulder and stood above Torre Garda, and the valley of the Wolf lying in the sunlight below them. The road down the valley lay like a yellow ribbon stretched across the broad breast of Nature. Half an hour later they reached the pine woods, and heard Perro barking on the terrace.
If it's this side of the river we'll have to get a move on." "It will be the range land, I take it, if it's on this side," Sir Redmond remarked. Just then a man thundered through the lane and up to the very steps of the porch, and when he stopped the horse he was riding leaned forward and his legs shook with exhaustion. "The Pine Ridge Range is afire, Mr. Lansell," the man announced quietly.
Mäzli pulled her along, however, and never let go her hand till they had reached the terrace; she had no desire to leave her friend behind when they were so near their goal. Now, Mäzli quickly taking back the second picture-book, which Leonore had been carrying for her, began to run. "Just come! Leonore. Look! there he sits already." With this Mäzli flew over to the large pine tree.
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