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Updated: May 31, 2025
He who gives faith hears the "goings of God in the tree-tops." The charcoal-burner fronts an oak for finding out how many cords of wood are in it, as the Goths of old fronted peerless temples for estimating how many huts they could quarry from the stately pile. But an artist curses the woodsman for making the tree food for ax and saw.
Parker was left standing alone on the ice. His supporters scuffled away, muttering angry complaints, but offering no resistance. When the giant woodsman returned after hastening their departure, he was faced by the young man, still defiant. Connick cocked his head humorously and looked down on the engineer.
He never had been met in that way before, and was not inclined to leave the field without in some way convincing Jim of his own superiority. "Mr. Fenton," said he, "did you ever see a medulla oblongata?" "Well, I seen a good many garters," replied the woodsman, 'in the stores, an' I guess they was mostly oblong." "Did you ever see a solar plexus?" inquired the Doctor, severely. "Dozens of 'em.
Ten feet farther, thrust all awry by the huge palm leaves, grows a young tree, unknown to me, looking like a walnut. Next to it an orange, covered with long prickles and small green fruit, its roots propped up by a semi-cylindrical balk of timber, furry inside, which would puzzle a Hampshire woodsman; for it is, plainly, a groo-groo or a coco-palm, split down the middle.
The two were setting out on a long night drive through the forest to spend Christmas with their family, on the edge of the lonely little settlement of Brine's Brook. When all was ready, the big-shouldered woodsman slipped into the seat beside his son, pulled the blankets and the bearskin all about him, and picked up the reins from the square dashboard.
"Yes, I was up here three or four years ago," answered his cousin, who, as my old readers know, was a natural-born hunter and woodsman. "Got a deer right over yonder." And he pointed with his hand. "The one I hit plumb in the left eye." "Oh, yes, I remember that," came from Dave. "It was a prime shot. Wish I could do as well sometime." "You needn't complain, Dave.
Every faculty was on the alert, for Butler was a natural woodsman, added to which was an experience of some two or three years in mountain and on plain until Tad was familiar with many of the tricks of the mountaineer. Suddenly the boy halted and stood with head thrown back sniffing the air. "Smoke!" breathed Tad. "There is a fire somewhere near here. That means some one is in camp here.
"So you think to deceive! Bah! I am too old a bird for that, or to pay heed to such airs. I have seen girls before, and a mood does not frighten me. But listen now keep away from De Artigny unless you seek trouble." "What mean you by that threat?" "You will learn to your sorrow; the way we travel is long, and I am woodsman as well as soldier. You will do well to heed my words."
Ye ain't agoin' to persuade me a hen kin jest quit layin' when she's a mind ter, waitin' tell ye pass her the compliment o' holdin' out yer hand fer the aig!" "There's lots o' hens that pervarted they'll turn round an' eat their own aigs!" suggested the woodsman, spitting thoughtfully through the open window.
And there's my wife, the Indian girl who saved me. Zane, she's a Christian. She wants to go with me. I can't leave her." "I am warning you, that's all. If I were you I'd never leave without a try to find the white girl, and I'd never forsake my Indian bride. I've been through the same thing. You must be a good woodsman, or Wetzel wouldn't have let you stay with him.
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