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If I hear a shot I'll come to you, and you do the same by me." "I say," said Hughie, "where does this track of mine come out? Is it below the Deepole there, or is it on the other side of the clearing?" "Why, don't you know?" said Don. "This runs right up to the back of the Fisher's berry patch, and through the sugar-bush to your own clearing. I'll go with you if you like."
Here 'tis back for you, sir; it don't shute my fancy, not bein' an Indjin yet, though I dunno what I mightn't come to. The pipe was received with the deepest gravity. No outward sign had testified surprise or any other emotion, at the discovery that white men had settled close to their 'sugar-bush, and of course become joint proprietors.
S'pose him smaller, what den? Big enough for farm." "Does it cover one or two hundred acres, think you? Is it as large as the clearing around the fort?" "Big as two, six, four of him. Take forty skin, dere one season. Little lake; all 'e tree gone." "And the land around it is it mountainous and rough, or will it be good for corn?" "All sugar-bush what you want better?
The voices of the arriving birds, the migrating fowls, the clouds of pigeons sweeping across the sky or filling the woods, the elfin horn of the first honey-bee venturing abroad in the middle of the day, the clear piping of the little frogs in the marshes at sundown, the camp-fire in the sugar-bush, the smoke seen afar rising over the trees, the tinge of green that comes so suddenly on the sunny knolls and slopes, the full translucent streams, the waxing and warming sun, how these things and others like them are noted by the eager eye and ear!
Then the hills and lakes disappeared, and they hurried through mile after mile of pine forests, where they saw men gathering turpentine from which to make resin. It was scooped into buckets from cuts made in the bark of the trees, and the whole operation "looked for all the world," as Mark said, "like a sugar-bush in Maine."
One day's march from Susquehanna." "Well; proceed." "What he like? Like land, to be sure. T'ink he like water! Got some water no too much got some land got no tree got some tree. Got good sugar-bush got place for wheat and corn." "Proceed." "How much of him?" continued Nick, taking up another twig; "much as he want want little, got him want more, got him.
A few score of friendly Oneidas and lukewarm Onondagas came here to pay their respects to Magdalen Brant, who, they heard, was living at our house. "Magdalen received them; she is a sweet girl and very good to her wild kin; and so father permitted them to camp in the empty house in the sugar-bush, and sent them food and tobacco and enough rum to please them without starting them war-dancing.
Orchards of young trees bloomed about them; the sawmill was noisily eating its way through planks on the edge of the stream; groups of 'sugar-bush' maples stood about; over all the declining sun, hastening to immerse itself in the measureless woods westward. 'Pleasant places, said Mr. Wynn to himself, quoting old words; 'my lot has fallen in pleasant places.
He wondered if young women were affected the same way. He hoped so. At present his courage failed him. They reached the "sugar-bush" proper, and wandered about among the big maples.
As the darkness increased, I began to think the sugar-bush not the most desirable place in the world, in which to pass the night, and all the stories I had ever heard of bears, wolves, and other wild animals rushed across my mind, and filled me with terror.
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