Forest Life and Forest Trees

Part II The Pine-Tree, or Forest Life

CHAPTER I.
The Pines.‌—‌White Pines: rank claimed for this Variety.‌—‌Predilections. ‌—‌Comparison instituted.‌—‌Pitch and Norway Pines.‌—‌White Pine.‌—‌ Magnitude.‌—‌New York Pines.‌—‌Lambert’s Pine on Northwest Coast.‌—‌ Varieties.‌—‌Its Rank.‌—‌Great variety of purposes to which it is devoted.‌—‌Great Pine near Jackson Lake.‌—‌Capital Invested.‌—‌Hands employed on the Penobscot	37
CHAPTER II.
The Pine twenty-five Years ago.‌—‌Its rapid Disappearance.‌—‌Explorations.‌—‌Outfit.‌—‌Up-river Journeying.‌—‌Its Distance.‌—‌Mode of Nightly Encampment.‌—‌Cooking.‌—‌Disturbed Slumbers. ‌—‌Ludicrous Fright.‌—‌Deer.‌—‌Encounter with Bears.‌—‌Mode of Exploring. ‌—‌Forest Observatory.‌—‌Climbing Trees.‌—‌The Emotions excited by the View.‌—‌Necessity of Compass.‌—‌Nature’s Compass.‌—‌The Return.‌—‌ Annoyances from mischievous Bears.‌—‌Stumpage.‌—‌Permits.‌—‌Outfit and Return.‌—‌Crossing Carrying-places.‌—‌A Strong Man.‌—‌Skill of Boatmen.‌—‌Item of personal Experience.‌—‌Blind Path.‌—‌A Family in the Wilderness.‌—‌Things to be considered in locating Camps	44
CHAPTER III.
Method of constructing Camp and Hovel.‌—‌Timber.‌—‌Covering.‌—‌Arrangement of Interior.‌—‌The Bed.‌—‌ Deacon Seat.‌—‌Ingenious Method of making a Seat.‌—‌Cooking: superior Method of Baking.‌—‌The nightly Camp Fire.‌—‌Liabilities from taking Fire.‌—‌A Camp consumed.‌—‌Men burned to Death.‌—‌Enjoyment.‌—‌The new Camp: Dedication.‌—‌A Song.‌—‌A Story.‌—‌New Order in Architecture.‌—‌ Ox Hovel.‌—‌Substitute for Lime.‌—‌The Devotedness of the Teamster. ‌—‌Fat and lean Cattle.‌—‌Swamping Roads.‌—‌Clumps of Pine.‌—‌The points of Interest in a Logging Road.‌—‌The Teamster’s Path.‌—‌Regret.‌—‌The peculiar Enjoyment of Men thus engaged	65
CHAPTER IV.
Tokens of Winter.‌—‌The Anticipation.‌—‌Introduction of Team.‌—‌ Difficulties attending it.‌—‌Uncomfortable Boating.‌—‌The Contrast. ‌—‌Method of crossing Streams and Rivers.‌—‌The Docility of the Ox. ‌—‌Facilities of Turnpikes.‌—‌Stopping-places.‌—‌Arrival.‌—‌An Adventure.‌—‌Ten Oxen in the Ice.‌—‌Method of taking them Out.‌—‌An uncomfortable Night.‌—‌The midnight Excursion.‌—‌Oxen running at large in the Wilderness.‌—‌Developments of Memory.‌—‌Logging.‌—‌Division of Labor.‌—‌How to manage in the absence of a Cook.‌—‌”Uncle Nat.”‌—‌ Anecdote.‌—‌Felling Pines.‌—‌Ingenuity of Choppers.‌—‌Preparatory Arrangements.‌—‌The Bob-sled.‌—‌Method of Operation described.‌—‌ The Excitement.‌—‌Comparison.‌—‌Immediate Length of Pine-trees. ‌—‌Conclusion	83
CHAPTER V.
The Skill and Enterprise of Lumbermen.‌—‌Method of taking Logs down Hills and Mountains.‌—‌Dry Sluice.‌—‌Stern Anchor.‌—‌Giant Mountain Steps.‌—‌Alpine Lumbering.‌—‌Warping a Team down Steeps.‌—‌Trial of Skill and Strength.‌—‌The rival Load.‌—‌Danger and Inconvenience of Hills in Logging Roads.‌—‌A distressing Accident.‌—‌Solemn Conclusion of a Winter’s Work.‌—‌Some of the Perils attendant upon Lumbering.‌—‌ A fearful Wound.‌—‌Narrow Escape.‌—‌The buried Cap.‌—‌The safest Way of Retreat.‌—‌A Sabbath in the Logging Camp.‌—‌Sunday Morning Naps.‌—‌Domestic Camp Duties.‌—‌Letter Writing.‌—‌Recreations.‌—‌Sable Traps.‌—‌Deer and Moose.‌—‌Bear Meat.‌—‌A rare Joke.‌—‌Moose Hunt.‌—‌ Bewildered Hunters.‌—‌Extraordinary Encounter.‌—‌Conclusion of Sabbath in the Woods	100
CHAPTER VI.
Camp Life.‌—‌Winter Evenings.‌—‌An Evening in Camp.‌—‌Characters.‌—‌ Card-playing.‌—‌A Song.‌—‌Collision with wild Beasts.‌—‌The unknown Animal in a Dilemma.‌—‌”Indian Devil.”‌—‌The Aborigines’ Terror.‌—‌A shocking Encounter.‌—‌The Discovery and Pursuit.‌—‌The Bear as an Antagonist.‌—‌Their thieving Propensities.‌—‌A thrilling Scene in the Night.‌—‌A desperate Encounter with three Bears	129
CHAPTER VII.
Provision Teams.‌—‌Liabilities.‌—‌A Night in the Woods.‌—‌Traveling on Ice.‌—‌A Span of Horses lost.‌—‌Pat’s Adventure.‌—‌Drogers’ Caravan. ‌—‌Horses in the Water.‌—‌Recovery of a sunken Load.‌—‌Returning Volunteers from Aroostook.‌—‌Description of a Log Tavern.‌—‌Perils on Lakes in Snow-storms.‌—‌Camping at Night.‌—‌Rude Ferry-boats	142