The storehouse sits by the roadside at the foot of a mountain in the western end of the valley, just where the road tumbles down to the solid log cabin old Coonrod Pile had built, to the spring and the York home.
It was a log crib, and they chinked it with clay, and using split logs from the walls of the old shed, a puncheon floor was made.
Since a small boy he had been shooting with a rifle at the bobbing heads of turkeys that had been tethered behind a log so that only their heads would show.
His stone, and the one at the head of Grandpa Dave's grave, had both been made to look like trees turned to rocks and then chopped up and stacked up, one short log on top of another.
The log was breaking, and Mister Ward was falling!
The ideals of the Middle West began in the log huts set in the midst of the forest a century ago.
They lived in log huts in the woods, furnished their own supplies, or boarded near by, were called to the log school-house by horn for morning prayers, and then scattered in groups to the woods for study.
In imagination he pushed back the forest boundary to the confines of a mighty Commonwealth; he willed that log cabins should become the lofty buildings of great cities.
The log cabins, the cider and the coonskins were the symbols of the triumph of Middle Western ideas, and were carried with misgivings by the merchants, the bankers and the manufacturers of the East.
Remote from the opportunity for systematic education, substituting a log hut in the forest-clearing for the social comforts of the town, he suffered hardships and privations, and reverted in many ways to primitive conditions of life.
There were sharp contrasts with the pioneer life of the Old Northwest; for the forest shade, there was substituted the boundless prairie; the sod house for the log hut; the continental railway for the old National Turnpike and the Erie Canal.
Let us see to it that the ideals of the pioneer in his log cabin shall enlarge into the spiritual life of a democracy where civic power shall dominate and utilize individual achievement for the common good.
Even Martin Van Buren, whom we think of in connection with the East, was born in a log house under conditions that were not unlike parts of the older West.
The small farmer in his log cabin, raising varied crops, was displaced by the planter raising cotton.
Commonly the bear makes a stand in driftwood on a bank, or on a log that has fallen into or across a stream.
Coaching her up the steep places and along narrow ledges, I got her at last to the burning log obstruction.
As limbs were plentiful on the other side of the gorge, I went across on a large fallen log for a supply, shuffling the snow off with my feet as I crossed.
When more than halfway through the snow-slide mass, one of the saddle-cinches caught on the snag of a fallen log and held her fast.
To my astonishment Cricket came trotting across the slippery log after me!
He saw a faint glimmer of light, and found it came from a log building directly before him.
Then, where love reigned, the little log cabin would be a more blessed spot than a palace where love was not.
It had the appearance of a log house cut in two, and pulled apart, leaving a clear passage of about four feet right through the building.
Keith, as he waded wearily up to the small log building, and rapped on the rude door.
With his own hands he assisted in erecting a log church and school room, decorating the interior of the former with beautiful designs and mottoes, much to the Indians' delight.
For two hours they threaded the forest, up the long, winding valley, when at length a log cabin burst suddenly into view.
The objects which he beheld were log cabins, which he soon reached.
When Eliza and Beth went down the slope the following day, neither song nor whistling was heard from the Oliver log house.
The boards will go up on the log house again for--I cannot say how long.
The man looked down at the log which was just about to break in the middle.
Adee realized that when she made up her mind to visit at the log house and do what she could to relieve the sufferings of the sick.
As they walked up the slope, they had a better view of the log house.
Say, Miss Liza, pap wants the lend of your log chain.
He began to skirt the settlement, keeping well within the thick gloom of the woods, and presently, as he stumbled forward, he came to a small clearing in the center of which stood a log dwelling.
When he reached Scratch Hill, in the waning light of day, Hannibal, in a state of high excitement, met him at the log shed, which served as a barn.
What kind of a camp did they have, a regular log cabin?
In the meantime Mr. Spink and Mr. Dudder paid for all damages our friends had sustained, including the burning down of the log cabin, which the bad boys admitted, and promised to take Ham and Carl vigorously in hand.
Snap put another log on the fire, and then got out the acetylene bicycle lamp that had been brought along.
Must be a log on the fire," said Whopper to himself.
A dumb boy, who aided in the working of the mill, sat astride of a log of timber, kicking his feet among the long grasses, and blowing thistle down above his head upon the breeze.
Dave pointed out where the lad had broken a twig climbing over a log, where the loose covering of another log had been detached when he leaped to it, and where he had entered the creek, the toe of one moccasin pointing down-stream.
At the door of each log cabin, as solidly built as a little fort, a hunter was cleaning a long rifle.
There was no smoke, no sound, no light in the one window of the log shack.
He was half French, and he had married a Cree chief's daughter, and in their log cabin on the Gray Loon they had lived for many years in great prosperity and happiness.
Then he came to a log worn smooth by the feet of Gray Wolf and Kazan, and stopping every few feet to send out a whimpering call for his mother, he made his way farther and farther along it.
His soft little body thumped from logtolog as he shot this way and that, and when at last he stopped, there was scarcely a breath left in him.
This time Baree did not stop at the eight-inch logwhich had always shut in his world in that particular direction.
Carvel had seated himself on the snow-covered end of a birch log and was filling his pipe.
He had the log walls painted white with the lead and oil that were intended for his York boats.
She remained hidden in the factor's log house, and each time that he saw her Lerue thought that her face was a little thinner than the last, and her eyes bigger and hungrier looking.
The log was no longer smooth, and it was leading him upward higher and higher into the tangle of the windfall, and was growing narrower every foot he progressed.
Halfway over this line Pierrot had built a small log cabin, and at the end of it another, so that a day's work meant twenty-five miles.
It was in truth merely a log house with shakedowns, and stood across the rude road from his log farmhouse.
And then there were huge log gates with watch-towers on either sides where sentries sat day and night scanning the forest line.
He put up a log cabin down on the Gravois Road, and there he lived in the hardest luck of any man I ever saw until last year.
It had neither glass in the window nor an attractive display of goods; it was merely a log cabin set down on a weedy, sun-baked plot.
The log flared up again, and he turned slowly and looked at the shadows in her face.
As I came back dragging a log behind me I heard them in argument, and in their talk there was much about the Congress, and a woman named Flora Macdonald, and a British fleet sailing southward.
Monsieur Vigo threw out his hands, and laughed exactly as he had done in his log store at Kaskaskia.
I remember I sat on the squared log of the door-step, wondering whether, if I were to make my way to Salisbury, I could fall in with a party going across the mountains into Kentucky.
Perched on a tree-dotted knoll above the last spasm of the waters in their two-mile race for peace, was a two-storied loghouse with a little, square porch in front of the door.
It was just a windowless log house built outside the walls, our temple of avarice.
Eastward they lay lucent in the afternoon light; westward, behind the generous log camp standing on a natural terrace above the landing, they were in shadow.
Jethro walked through the hooded bridge, and up the eastern bank until he could see the forest like a black band between the orange sky and the orange river, and there he sat down upon a fallen log on the edge of the bank.
Miss Lucretia poked vigorously a log which had fallen down, as though that were a man, too, and she was putting him back in his proper place.
So the hunter found an old log behind some small trees and there sat down.
To be sure, they gave him sudden frights sometimes, when they happened to surprise him, but these frights lasted only until he reached the nearest bramble-tangle or hollow log where they could not get at him.
He kept as motionless as if he were a part of the very log on which he was sitting.
If possible have your back to a thicket with open ground in front, or you may prefer to get behind a log or stump, or in a fallen treetop.
In the South they are unprepared for much cold, and at such times will likely be found grouped together on the sunny slopes of hills, or behind some log or fence, to avoid the bitter winds, especially if the sun is not shining.
Imagine a gobbler dressed and lying on a log or piece of bark beside you.
In the solitude of the forest the hunter should not be at loss for methods of cooking even if he has but a frying-pan; a log for a table; his plate, a section of bark or large leaf.
Dropping the lunch and grasping the gun was but the work of a second; then the birds came round the end of the log and began scratching under a beech tree for nuts.
At the dawn of day the gobbler broke forth into a lively gobbling, when we proceeded to an old fallen pine log to call him.
Two chameleons are racing on thelog behind which you are crouching, and, springing suddenly to the dry leaves, they startle you with the clattering they make, so highly strung are your nerves; but you dare not move.
Sit down with your back against a tree, or behind a log or fallen tree if that suits you better.
A log house was used by us early in the morning as a temporary hospital.
When my skirmishers fell back this log house was left in the lines of the enemy, and Hospital Steward Baker, of the Fourth Iowa, was left in charge of the wounded there.
Colonel Dodge having discovered that the enemy were preparing for a general attack, changed his front to the right, covering his men with a log fence, thus compelling the enemy to cross an open field to reach him.
