The author has spent several years in the Canadian woods and is thoroughly familiar with the subject from both the masculine and feminine point of view.
The man in the woods whose comfort in summer and whose life in winter may depend upon his preparedness for the approaching storm does well to read its warnings and know its laws.
Rents had been raised, cottages pulled down, woods destroyed and turned to pasture, while the meadows, which under the Act of 1547 had been confiscated from the local gild, offered a tempting prey to some enterprising speculator.
She had three small children, but they made the journey in a sled, in bad weather, cutting their own roads, and camping in the woods at night.
The next day one of our neighbors told us that just at dark that evening she saw a band of men ride into the woods between her house and ours, but she was afraid to come over and tell us.
We saw a man ride into the woods just now," said they, "that looked like Pardee Butler, but he was riding a bay horse.
One day, when uncle was working at his cabin, some South Carolinians rode up, and not seeing father, they searched the woods and ravine near by, and rode away.
After one night there it moved for the next night to bivouacs known as Sarawak Camp, in the woods north of Poperinghe.
Arriving in the woods in the dark, the men were led by French guides by bewildering tracks and trenches to the front line.
Here final preparations were made for the line, and after a few days it moved up to relieve a battalion of the 73rd French Infantry Regiment in the woods immediately east of the Craonne Plateau.
But we have so many people lost in these woods every summer, that we feel it is a case of that kind.
Then they are scouring the woods for us, and that is why this camp is deserted!
As she flew through the woods Cologne, in distress, tried to summon the boys.
A signal had been arranged to notify those in the woods if any good news came, and as Major Dale placed his daughter in the arms of Cologne, Mrs. Markin ran out of doors, and blew the big horn, until she had no more breath left.
If we do have to stay in the woods all night, I shall not be afraid.
The boys were just coming out of the woods at the far end of the oaks.
All through the woods could be heard shouts and signals from the parties that were out searching for Dorothy, for Tavia and for the girl from the sanitarium.
That white solitude may be good medicine for some, but it makes me furious after a while, and I often wish that the woods and the deer and the fish and I myself and the whole devilish outfit were under the North Pole and frozen solid!
I know a man, an ornithologist, who for twelve years has wandered about the Florida woods and never saw a rattler.
For the last two hours these woods and glades have all looked precisely alike to me.
When at last he roused himself the afternoon sun was shining level in the west; long rosy beams struck through the woods turning the silver stems of the birches pink.
I can't quarrel with my bread and butter, but I wish people would let these woods alone.
When you come upon jasmine or an orchid in the woods you notice the colour at once in the green monotony.
Later lightning began to quiver through the darkness; a wind awaking overhead whispered prophecy, wailed it, foreboding; then slowly the woods filled with the roar of the rain.
He had developed a cold, not a very bad one, and on the third day he resumed his duties in the woods with Phelps and Baker, the surveyors, and young Hastings.
Over the wet woods a rain-washed moon glittered; the long storm had passed.
The latter was the hospital of Herbaldown, an erection of timber, in the woods of Blean about a mile from the west gate, for persons regia valetudine fluentibus (?
It was ever and ever so long ago, when the country was all over woods and Indians, you know, and this lady went to the West to live with her husband.
She had never seen suchwoods as those which they passed through.
There aren't any woods around here as there were at Long Lake.
In five minutes she was out of the grounds, and in woods where, though the walking was difficult, and she stumbled more than once, she at least felt safe from the danger of pursuit.
Soon the woods began to thin; then they grew thicker again.
I guess they realized that we were better than they thought, when Gladys and Marcia Bates got lost in the woods that time, and you and I happened to find them, and get them home safely.
The second canon is as follows: "If any man shall affirm that men at the first ran up and down in woods and fields, etc.
The purveyors, indeed, are described as living at free quarters upon the country, felling woods without the owners' consent, and commanding labour with little or no recompense.
Why the fust white man that ever come through these parts found the woods full uv 'em.
The shot was fired and the gunner leaned forward, looking eagerly at the dense woods and thickets to see what damage his shot had done.
Henry, studying the woods there, saw just within their shadow the long slinking figures of two gray wolves.
Never out in the woods afore by hisself an' nigh scared to death by the trees an' the dark.
He scanned the woods everywhere for the two missing warriors, and, at last, he drew a mighty sigh of relief when a tufted head appeared over the bushes, and a warrior returned to the opening.
The woods were so dense there that they heard the men before they saw them.
The caution bred by the necessity of the woods became a habit.
The old, primeval world had come back, and forgotten monsters ranged the woods while man, weaponless save for his club, crouched in his cave and listened with terror to the snarls of the great animals, so much more powerful than himself.
Pears that most o' 'em hed gone deeper into the woods to look fur somethin'.
Are thirty men to be driven all night through the woods by a single border rover?
A continuous life in the deep woods gives one new beliefs.
They've brought with them also two very formidable allies, the like of which were never seen in these woods before.
The Reason of the Ship's Company retiring to the Woods 65 De Fonte had particularly provided himself with some Englishmen.
Hot sultry Weather, the Woods thick, without the least Breath of Wind, infinite Number of Musquetoes and Midges.
After passing the Streight they coasted along the Shore three Months, going into the Country or Woodsas they went along to hunt for Provisions.
When the species of termites which live and dwell in the woods unfortunately approach near our habitations, there is no means of arresting their ravages.
From the gleaming snows to the lakes, from the woods to the rivers and to the fresh emerald meads, a sovereign virginity predominates over the whole country.
This was chiefly due to the fact that all the woods of Central Brazil had so high a specific gravity that not one of them would float.
The jatoba or jatahy wood has a high specific gravity, and is considered one of the woods with the highest resistance to disintegration in Brazil--as high as 1 kg.
Valuable woods occur in many Brazilian forests--although it must not for one moment be imagined that entire forests are to be found composed of useful woods.
Yet it seemed to be a paradise on earth--delightful climate, excellent soil, useful woods in the forest, plenty of delicious water.
I cut down some rollers and some levers of the hardest woods I could find in the forest near there, and when once I had set to work a little more intelligently than they did, I had no difficulty in moving the canoe along.
You cannot build a raft, as all the woods in these regions are too heavy and not one will float.
Most Brazilian woods are interesting on account of their high specific gravity.
Those Woods are extremely elegant in their kind; we must certainly contrive to take a Ride thither some Evening.
Country" where his companion solicitously directs his attention to the elegant woods (p.
The river is just over there, and the woods lie between it and the trolley line.
A sharp, incisive note echoed through the woods and across the river.
I went into the woods where no one could see me, and I prayed to the Lord to open my way so that I could go and preach the gospel.
One of the Saints, seeing the state of affairs, went on before the mob to notify the brethren, so that they had time to ride into the woods near by.
I felt very happy, and got up and walked out of the woods into the traveled road, and there I met a High Priest who had lived in the same house with me some six months.
While we were in the woods suffering under the blast of the storm, groping like the blind for the wall, a bright light suddenly shone around us and revealed to us our dangerous situation on the edge of a gulf.
Segura had a most difficult and fatiguing journey on foot, having several rivers to cross, some of them by swimming, and to pass through woods and marshes in a road through which no person had travelled for a long while.
They marched on however the rest of that day, without knowing any thing of the road, yet found the woods easily passable.
In the same time the Spaniards only killed fifty Indians, as they were always on their guard and kept among the woods and swamps.
In such an emergency, we were not to show our weakness to the enemy, but were to bluff them, if we could, and take to the woods in good order.
Our company was drawn up in the woods within gunshot of the enemy, but we had no clear view of their actions.
It was one of those times in which the woods were alive with bluecoats.
I moved right off from the river, through woods and fields, with the command following at a lively gait.
Like Chalmers, he carried his good breeding into camp, and even in the woods there was an air of refinement in all his ways.
Instantly we saw in the woods to our left a whole regiment of Federal cavalry aiming to reach the road at an angle and speed that would throw them into it just ahead of us.
As we entered the extensive piney woods section east of Tuskaloosa, we were critically near the right flank of the enemy, pushing on towards Selma.
I had to keep him at a walk, for I was in a rough piece ofwoods and could not see two feet beyond my horse's head.
We had left our horses in the woods across the lane.
Aspidium marginale] THE WOOD FERNS The ferns of this group, not counting the small fragrant fern, prefer the woods or at least shady places.
They turn yellow in the fall, at times "flooding the woods with golden light," but soon smitten by the early frosts they wither and disappear.
In moist woods and fields, Canada to Maryland and westward; Conway and Plainfield, Mass.
The interrupted fern is rather common in damp, rocky woods and pastures; Newfoundland to Minnesota, south to North Carolina and Missouri.
Rich woodsand moist, shady banks, New England to Kentucky and westward.
Davenport)] In rich woods from southern Canada and New Hampshire to Minnesota and southward.
A northern species growing in rocky woods from Labrador to Alaska, and south to Niagara Falls, Lake Superior and westward.
Its companion in the woods is the golden-crowned thrush, for which it might easily be mistaken were it not for the absence of streaks on its breast.
While walking through woods frequented by this rare little warbler the experiences of Mr. Leander Keyser is that of all who have had the pleasure of meeting it among the trees.
Ladislaus rode out of the woods onto the open roadway.
It was possible for them to insure, fairly well, her safe return, but to insure her safe passage through the woods in the direction of the city it was absolutely too late.
In the woods from the opposite direction came more than a dozen of workingmen who evidently were enjoying a May outing.
About fifteen of the tenants are preparing to go to the woods with hatchets and they declare that, if the foresters interfere with their right to cut wood, they will give them a good drubbing.
For, in truth, who knows what happens in the woods at noontime or night time, when no one is there; or in the mists during the moonlight or upon the ponds?
Did you observe on the forest road, riding to Jastrzeb, that the edges of the woods are planted with elders?
For some time I wandered about the woods in quest of game, but although I fired at many animals that were good for food, I missed them all, and was unwillingly compelled to return empty-handed.
He leaped up, turned round, and ran for the woods at the top of his speed; but the bull was upon him in an instant.
Peterkin and I employed ourselves in alternately tending our comrade, and in scouring the neighbouring woods and plains in search of wild animals.
The cries of the savages filled the woods in all directions, showing that they had instantly scattered themselves in the pursuit, in order to increase their chances of intercepting us.
As the sun set we landed, and ordering our men to advance in the canoe to a certain bend in the river, and there encamp and await our return, we landed and went off into the woods as if to search for game.
It was equally impossible to leave her where she was, and to let her try to make her escape through the woods alone was not to be thought of.
It is of these wild men of the woods that their most remarkable and incredible stories are related.
Our guide obeyed in silence, and for the next two hours we travelled through the woods at a sort of half trot that must have carried us over the ground at the rate of five miles in hour.
Woods paid no attention to this order, and Busteed sent the United States marshal to arrest him.
Much to the indignation of Generals Woods and Thomas, services were held in private houses.
The druggist made his preparations from herbs, roots, and barks gathered in the woods and fields.
Woods threatened to use force, and had the churches closed by soldiers.
He stated that near Talladega many white families were living in the woodswith no shelter except the pine boughs, and this in the middle of winter.
The writ was served on General Woods and Colonel Hunter Brooke, who presided over the military commission.
It is said that in the woods the blows of no single axe nor the sound of any single falling tree could be distinguished; the sound was simply continuous.
These regulations bear the approval of the other two rulers of Alabama--General Woods and Governor Parsons.
Some qualifications of loyalty seem to have been: a certain mild disapproval of secession, a refusal to enlist in the Confederate army or desertion after enlisting, hiding in the woods to avoid conscript officers.
Terrible stories of cruel treatment of the negroes were brought to Woods by the Bureau officials, and he sent detachments of soldiers to investigate the reports.
The "mossback," who according to popular belief hid himself in the woods until moss grew on his back, might or might not be a "tory.
Every tenant could keep a few pigs and a cow, chickens, turkeys, and guineas, and especially dogs, and could hunt in all thewoods around and fish in all the waters.
These "deadfalls" were in the woods or swamps on the edges of the large plantations.
