FEINBERG/WHITMAN
NOTES and NOTEBOOKS
NOTES - - Literary
[1856(?)]  Trees, Lumberman, Indian
Box 39   Folder 9 



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1856?  Trees, Lumberman, Indian: notes. A.MS. (lp. 25 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm.)

Written in pencil on a sheet which seems taken from a pad of paper, 
about 235 words:
   The mountain-ash, a large shrub, 16 or 20 ft high -- northern 
part of the state of New York -- has white blossoms -- blooms early 
in the spring -- has then a pleasant perfume--the hillsides where 
it grows thickly look white from the blossoms. --

   amusemnets around the fire in the lumbermans hut -- the great 
bright light -- the songs and stories --
   The lumberman in the woods -- goes in in the early winter -- makes 
a hut -- perhaps a gang of lumbermen -- the pine is the principal timber --
the pine grows sometimes thick as a hogshead -- 100, 150, and 
even 200 feet high -- they cut it in logs of 13 feet -- The maple, the 
beech, &c are good woods -- hemlock, spruce -- hardy life, healthy, 
robust, -- food is largely of salt pork, beans, peas, &c and the 
like. -- The animals likely to be seen are the wolf, the black bear,
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and possibly a catamount      [Story-of]

Story of the catamount and the Indian of the Indian of the St. 
Regis -- The Indian lived in his hut in the woods -- made sugar-baskets --
took a lot into the village -- left his little son of five 
years old to take care of the hut -- returned -- boy gone -- peered 
around up and down -- saw the boy up in a tree in the power of a 
large catamount who was tossing him up and down -- Indian at last 
fired -- the enraged catamount tore

The mountain=ash, a large shrub, 16 or 20 ft
high -- northern part of the state of New York
-- has white blossoms -- blooms early in the
spring -- has then a pleasant perfume -- the
hill-sides where it grows thickly look white
from the blossoms. --
   Amusements around the fire in the lumbermans 
hut -- the great bright light -- the songs and stories -- 
The lumberman in the woods -- goes
in in the early winter -- makes a hut --
perhaps a gang of lumbermen -- the
pine is the principal timber -- the
pine grows sometimes thick as a hogshead
--100, 150, and even 200 feet high -- they
cut it in logs of 13 feet. -- The maple,
the beech, &c are good woods -- hemlock,
spruce --- hardy life, healthy, robust,
-- food is largely of salt pork, beans,
peas, [&c] and the like, -- The animals likely
to be seen are the wolf, the
[Story of] black bear, and possibly a catamount

Story of the Catamount and the Indian of the 
Indian of the St. Regis- The Indian lived 
in his hut in the woods -- made sugar= baskets
--took a lot into the village -- left his little son
of five years old to take care of the hut -- returned --
boy gone  -- peered around up and down -- saw the boy
up in a tree in the power of a large catamount who was tossing
him up and down -- Indian at last fired -- the enraged catamount
tore

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