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 PART III. RIVER LIFE. CHAPTER I. "Breaking Up."--Grotesque Parading down River.--Rum and Intemperance. --Religious Rites profaned.--River-driving on Temperance Principles. --The first Experiment.--A spiritual Song 149 CHAPTER II.