 ... less for the poor wretches, before they left us. Their first successor in the woods, the pioneer, without sympathy for them personally, seems yet to have imbibed, perhaps from the forest air, somewhat of their love of roving, their desire of freedom...  Forest Life - Page 208by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 372 pages
...freedom from restraint, their dislike of continuous labour, and their preference for such as pnomises a speedy return, however small. Going into the sugar-bush...chance of failure — relieves the tedium of mere labour. An enterprise, in the success of which luck is to have its share, is always undertaken with... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - United States - 1854 - 358 pages
...of their love of roving, their desire of freedom from restraint, their dislike of continuous labour, and their preference for such as promises a speedy...chance of failure — relieves the tedium of mere labour. An enterprise, in the success of which luck is to have its share, is always undertaken with... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - American wit and humor - 1854 - 324 pages
...of their love of roving, their desire of freedom from restraint, their dislike of continuous labour, and their preference for such as promises a speedy...chance of failure — relieves the tedium of mere labour. An enterprise, in the success of which luck is to have its share, is always undertaken with... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - History - 1854 - 356 pages
...of their love of roving, their desire of freedom from restraint, their dislike of continuous labour, and their preference for such as promises a speedy...something of the excitement which the forester loves so svell to mingle, whenever and wherever he can, with all his work. A dash of uncertainty — a chance... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 pages
...by boiling the sap of the tree. These arc sometimes called sugar orchards. Going into the sugar bush has something of the excitement which the forester loves so well to mingle with all his work. — The Americans at Home, Vol. I. SUGAR CAMP. The place where the sap is collected... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 pages
...These are sometimes called sugar-orchards ; and, in the West, sugar-camps. Going into the suijar-bush has something of the excitement which the forester loves so well to mingle with all his work. — The Americans at Home, Vol. I. Sugar-Camp. The place where the sap is collected... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1889 - 882 pages
...boiling the sap of the tree. These are sometimes called sugar-orchards; and, iu the West, sugar-camps. Going into the sugar-bush has something of the excitement which the forester loves so well to mingle with all his work. — The Americans at Home, Vol. I. Sugar -Camp. The place where the sap is collected... | |
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