They are light and shapely vessels, calculated for rapid and rocky streams, and to be carried over long portages on men's shoulder...s, from twenty to thirty feet long, and only four or four and a half wide, sharp at both ends like a canoe, though broadest forward on the bottom, and reaching seven or eight feet over the water, in order that they may slip over rocks as gently as possible. They are made very slight, only two boards to a side, commonly secured to a few light maple or other hard-wood knees, but inward are of the clearest and widest white pine stuff, of which there is a great waste on account of their form, for the bottom is left perfectly flat, not only from side to side, but from end to end. Sometimes they become "hogging" even, after long use, and the boatmen then turn them over and straighten them by a weight at each end. They told us that one wore out in two years, or often in a single trip, and sold for from fourteen to sixteen dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Indian remarked as before, "Must have hard wood to cook moose-meat," as if that were a maxim, and proceeded to get it. My comp...anion cooked some in California fashion, winding a long string of the meat round a stick and slowly turning it in his hand before the fire. It was very good. But the Indian, not approving of the mode, or because he was not allowed to cook it his own way, would not taste it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where... the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or ...writer or philosopher--a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old Abe is much better looking than I expected & younger looking. He shook hands like a good fellow--working hard at it like a man... sawing wood at so much per cord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They plough, harrow, reap, dig, make hay, rake, bind grain, thresh, chop wood, milk, churn, do anything that is hard work, physica...l labor, and who says anything against it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no healt...h to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »