Then he kindly invited me to camp with him, and led me to his little cabin, situated at the foot of the mountains, where a small spring oozes out of a bank overgrown with wild-rose bushes.

" So, like an idle schoolboy, the unknown forsook his own course, turning from the road when Johnnie turned, and went with her up the steep, rocky gulch where the door of a deserted cabin flung to and fro on its hinges.

With no companion but his dog, he had probably spent two or three months, and very possibly more, in this lonely cabin.

A load of lumber would be hauled to some spot on the free wilderness, where water could be easily found, and a rude box-cabin built.

Here and there the skirmishersfor that was the office the two companies were now fillingcame upon signs of picket-posts; and once, as Jack hurried beyond his group to the thicket, near a wretched cabin, a horse and rider were visible tearing through the foliage of a winding lane.

Take first Mr. Hobhouse's plain prose: "The sensations produced by the state of the weather"it was wretched and stormy when they left the "Salsette" for the city"and leaving a comfortable cabin, were in unison with the impressions which we felt when, passing under the palace of the Sultans, and gazing at the gloomy cypress which rises above the walls, we saw two dogs gnawing a dead body."

On River and Sound boats, the forward cabin is generally the smoking-room, the cabin amidships is used for a "Social Hall," and the "After Saloon" is always the ladies' cabin.

And even if neither of them had lived there, if my sentiment had been all wasted (but there was no question of tears), the place itself was sightly, the house was old, and the way thither a pleasant onefirst down the hill in a zigzag course to the vicinity of the railway station, then by a winding country road through the valley past a few negro cabins, and up the slope on the farther side.

"I's jes' proud ob him, I is!" Smoothly and swiftly and safely "The Swallow" was bearing her precious cargo across the summer sea; but the morning had brought no comfort to the two homes at the head of the inlet, or the humble cabin in the village.

It was Mr. Fontaine who closed his eyes in hope of resurrection and spoke the last words above his grave, beloved in this great mansion as in the lowliest cabin at Charles City.

They looked angrily at each other when Max explained how the woods boy had found traces of some intruder who had actually entered his lone cabin while he, Obed, was away in their company; also telling how the other strongly suspected that a dastardly plot had been hatched, looking to the robbing of the pens connected with the silver fox fur farm.

He took his place in the narrow cabin in the same mood, following the Cardinal in after the last good-byes had been said.

Nearly the first work done was the building of a double log cabin, about half a mile from the mill-site.

They sometimes attacked bodies of troops, but always by ambush or surprise; and they much preferred to pounce on unprepared and unsuspecting surveyors, farmers, or wayfarers, or to creep up to solitary, outlying cabins.

In the outer cabin nearest to the engine-room, and entered immediately by the ladder descending from the deck, was fixed a low central table.

Behind the blow was the full impetus of the lithe form fairly launched across the spacious cabin.

And what matter is it, that their lordly mansions are embowered in the shade of trees of a century's growth, if, through their lofty and tangled branches, we espy the rough cabin of the mangled bondman, and know that the soil on which he labors has drunk his heart's blood?

It was in the first year after he appeared in that region, while he was living like a hermit alone, or supposed to be alone, in a tiny log cabin on an island not much bigger than his cabin.

Just as this was decided, a blood-curdling baying of bloodhounds echoed across the pond from the distant cabin.

I made one more trip into the desolate cabin, returning with pipes and tobacco, which I took forward and distributed, an ample supply for all the crew.

There are several villages of the Senegal negroes, or Jalofs, upon and about this promontory, which are composed of thatched cabins close by the shore, and in sight of those who sail past.

Low wooden cabins and bamboo huts, surmounted with green foliage and blossoming flowers, are picturesquely grouped with areca palms, and tall, feather-headed bamboos, upon its banks.

" That night in the smoky cabin he talked freely for once.

He now turned down a green lane, between rows of thrifty trees, to a neat log-cabin, whose nicely-plastered walls and the regular fence inclosing it testified to the thrift and good taste of the owner.

He thought that he had the lovely Övid Cloister parkwhich was as large as a forestall to himself; and he wasn't anxious to go back to the stuffy cabin and the little patch of ground there at home.