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Luck was with Henderson, however; for shortly thereafter there came again to Sequoia one Colonel Seth Pennington, a millionaire white-pine operator from Michigan. The Colonel's Michigan lands had been logged off, and since he had had one taste of cheap timber, having seen fifty-cent stumpage go to five dollars, the Colonel, like Oliver Twist, desired some more of the same.
Why, you little Lady of Shalott, says I, 'you underdone leader of cotillions, you glassy fashion and moulded form, you white-pine soldier made in the Cisalpine Alps in Germany for the late New-Year trade, do you know of whom you are talking to? We've been in the same social circle, says I, 'and I've put up with you because you seemed so meek and self-un-satisfying.
A score or more of small tables fastened securely to the floor for many, as Bob often said, "comes here deep in liquor an' can't tell a white-pine table from a black felt hat" were disposed about the room at measured distances from each other, equipped with four short-legged stools, a set of casters, and a jar of sugar, all so firmly fixed as to baffle both cupidity and nervousness.
I suppose if I made such a levelling confession as this in public, people would think I was looking towards being the labor-reform candidate for President. But I should go on and spoil my prospects by saying that I don't think the white-pine Yankee is the more generally prevailing growth, but rather the pitch-pine Yankee.
The reception room seemed a mile square, because there was nothing in it except some rows of books, on unpainted white-pine bookshelves, a cracked marble-top table, a rag rug, a hairless horsehair sofa and two or three chairs. Yes, there was a picture on the wall, a colored crayon drawing of a cluster of pansies.
"Well, I don't suppose it does do me much good," Mrs. Maynard said, turning her eyes seaward. Barlow let his hand drop from the piazza post, and slouched in-doors; but he came out again as if pricked by conscience to return. "After all, you know, it did n't cure him." "What cure him?" asked Mrs. Maynard. "The whiskey with the white-pine chips in it." "Cure who?" "My brother." "Oh! Oh, yes!
He thought that the principal locality for the white-pine that came down the Penobscot now was at the head of the East Branch and the Allegash, about Webster Stream and Eagle and Chamberlain Lakes. Much timber has been stolen from the public lands. Surely, stealing pine-trees in this way is not so mean as robbing hen-roosts.
Painted a cold merciless white, with scant projections for shadows, a roof of white-pine shingles, bleached lighter through sun and wind, and covered with low, white-capped chimneys, it looked even more stark and chilly than the drifts which had climbed its low roadside fence, and yet seemed hopeless of gaining a foothold on the glancing walls, or slippery, wind-swept roof.
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