JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
CHAPTER ONE 1
CHAPTER TWO 11
CHAPTER THREE 18
CHAPTER FOUR 25
CHAPTER FIVE 30
CHAPTER SIX 43
CHAPTER SEVEN 53
CHAPTER EIGHT 63
CHAPTER NINE 75
CHAPTER TEN 86
CHAPTER ELEVEN 96
CHAPTER TWELVE 109
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 129
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 139
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 151
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 167
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 183
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 200
CHAPTER NINETEEN 212
CHAPTER TWENTY 219
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 232
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 240
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 248
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 261
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 272
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 285
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 296
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 302
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 326
CHAPTER THIRTY 339







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

UP IN MAINE

A HAIL TO THE HUNTER

HOSSES

THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK

TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE

HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE

B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR

“JEST A LIFT”

BART OF BRIGHTON

GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL

THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL

THE PADDYWHACKS

THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY

THE MYSTIC BAND

AT THE OLD “GOOL”