When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its st...ump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaw...s them,--to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »