The Adirondack; Or, Life in the Woods - Softcover

Headley, Joel Tyler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1230348883 ISBN 13: 9781230348889

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... XIII. A Ride Through The Forest A Lean Dinner Che Ney's Cousin--Swimming A Lake With Horses. Backwoods, August. Dear H: I Am off again for the woods--resolved to penetrate to the heart of this wild country, whose scenery cannot be matched this side of the Alps. For fifty miles, we can with care go on horseback, and +1 we must be our own beasts of burden. Our company consists of five--a young clergyman, whom I persuaded to try bivouacking in the forest, instead of lounging at Saratoga Springs for his health, R--ffe, formerly a merchant in Maiden Lane, but now a thorough backwoodsman, cutting down forests and putting up mills, &c., and Doctor T--11, and young P It was a bright morning, as, mounted on fresh LUNCHING WITHOUT FOOD. 113 horses, with our rifles on our shoulders, we passed from the more open settlements, which gradually grew thinner and wilder, and entered the unbroken forest. In the trouble we were at to obtain an extra horse, and afterwards a saddle, we forgot to take provisions for the way; so, after traveling for nearly thirty miles, we found ourselves on the banks of the Boreas River, (our old friend, with whom we encamped a week or two since, some thirty miles to the northeast,) weary and hungry, and twelve miles of forest to the nearest clearing. It was now one o'clock, and we had been in the saddle since early in the morning. Our horses needed food and rest, so did we; but the former was easier obtained for our beasts than for us. Taking off their saddles and tying them head and foot to prevent them from straying away, we turned them loose, to browse in the forest. "W--d hunted around for berries to allay his hunger, while the doctor smoked his pipe and chewed spruce gum which he peeled from the trees, by way...

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• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230348883
• ISBN 13: 9781230348889
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76