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The regular price for underbrushing hard-wood land, and cutting up-all the old fallen timber- -which is always considered a part of the underbrushing is one dollar per acre, and board. Rough land and swamp vary from seven shillings and sixpence to ten shillings.
'They are home trees; but the shrubs have chiefly foreign faces, so I can chop them down without compunction. 'All such sentimental distinctions will evaporate when you get into the spirit of your work, said his friend Sam. 'Your underbrushing rule does not spare anything less than six inches in diameter; all must be cut close to the ground, and piled in heaps for the burning.
'I guess as how you've stumps before you to-day, a few, said the farmer, coming out axe on shoulder. ''Tain't only a blaze up beyond your place at the Cedars, and not much better than a track of regulation width from the "Corner" to there. Only for that job of underbrushing I want to get finished, I'd be along with you to-day.
Had a letter from Gordon yesterday, who is happy in learning so much that is new to him. He was at Bambray's for dinner last Sabbath and spent an evening at Dunlop's. He will make friends wherever he goes. December 3 There has been nothing worth setting down. Have had a long spell of grey, cloudy days, which just suited felling trees and underbrushing.
A man in a red shirt, who was engaged in underbrushing at a little distance, said that 'the town' was only a mile away Greenock, on the Clyde. Alas for nomenclature! The waggon scrambled down a rather steep declivity, towards a dozen houses scattered beside a stream: stumps stood erect in the single short street, and a ferry-boat was the only craft enlivening the shore.
The great matter on the minds of our settlers now, was the underbrushing. They might calculate on the whole month of November for their work the beautiful dreamy November of Canada, as different from its foggy and muddy namesake in Britain as well may be.
Not too many beech, or I'd expect sand; with here and there a big pine and a handful of balsams. The underbrushing ain't much, except in the swamp. 'I'm glad to hear that, said Mr. Holt, 'for the fall is going fast, and we'll have to work pretty hard before snow comes. 'So I'm thinkin'. But you ain't going to settle: you haven't the cut of it: you're settled already. 'How do you know?
Robert Wynn thought it right to mark off Sunday very distinctly for himself and his household by a total cessation of labour, and the establishment of regular worship. Andy made no sort of objection, now that he was out of the priest's reach. Other days were laborious enough. In the underbrushing was included the cutting up all fallen timber, and piling it in heaps for the spring burnings.
They wished even for the corduroy expedient a little farther on, when the line became encumbered with stumps left from the underbrushing, and which caught in the axletree every few score yards. Now came the handspikes into action, which provident Sam had cut, and laid into the waggon when the road was fair and smooth; for the wheels had to be lifted high enough to slip over the obstacles.
On returning he and I did a bit of underbrushing, piling as much of the brush as we could round the felled timber to help to burn it. Aug. 19 Kept underbrushing all day. Aug. 20 So hot gave the ax a rest. In the afternoon a thunderstorm. The downpour tested the roof of the stable, which leaked in only one place, where a scoop had split. Aug. 21 Quite cool with a brisk northerly breeze.
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