KING SPRUCE CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Up in “Castle Cut ’Em” 1 II. The Heiress of “Oaklands” 17 III. The Making of a “Chaney Man” 27 IV. The Boss of the “Busters” 35 V. During the Pugwash Hang-up 55 VI. As Fought before the “It-’ll-git-ye Club” 62 VII. On Misery Gore 78 VIII. The Torch, and the Lighting of It 92 IX. By Order of Pulaski D. Britt 104 X. “Ladder” Lane’s Soirée 114 XI. In the Barony of “Stumpage John” 127 XII. The Code of Larrigan-land 142 XIII. The Red Throat of Pogey 153 XIV. The Message of “Prophet Eli” 164 XV. Between Two on Jerusalem 174 XVI. In the Path of the Big Wind 181 XVII. The Affair at Durfy’s Camp 198 XVIII. The Old Soubungo Trail 217 XIX. The Home-makers of Enchanted 230 XX. The Ha’nt of the Umcolcus 241 XXI. The Man Who Came from Nowhere 256 XXII. The Hostage of the Great White Silence 270 XXIII. In the Matter of John Barrett’s Daughter 278 XXIV. The Cheese Rind that Needed Sharp Teeth 293 XXV. Sharpening Teeth on Pulaski Britt’s Whetstone 303 XXVI. The Devil of the Hempen Strands 312 XXVII. The “Canned Thunder” of Castonia 324 XXVIII. “’Twas Done by Tommy Thunder” 341 XXIX. The Parade Past Rodburd Ide’s Platform 352 XXX. The Pact with King Spruce 361 ILLUSTRATIONS “‘I KNOW YOUR HEART’” Frontispiece “WADE STOOD ABOVE THE FALLEN FOE” Facing p. 70 “WRITHING AT HIS BONDS, HIS CONTORTED FACE TOWARDS THE RED FLAMES GALLOPING UP THE VALLEY” 172 “‘WHAT I SAY ON THIS RIVER GOES!’” 334 UP IN MAINE CONTENTS PREFACE 'ROUND HOME AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT CY NYE, PREVARICATOR UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE “PLUG” THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH GRAMPY’S LULLABY HOSKINS’S COW AN OLD STUN’ WALL THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA SON HAS GOT THE DEED AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH” “WHEN A MAN GETS OLD” I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP TAKIN’ COMFORT EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE GRAMPY SINGS A SONG UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER MORAL. ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S “THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED” ’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.” TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME” GOOD-BY, LOBSTER CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS ON THE OLD COAST TUB TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP THE SONG OF THE SAW DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS REAR O’ THE DRIVE MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP