Along the scattered watercourses, where they broke the thick ice to give their cattle drink, the annual autumn fires had left but little firewood.

Then he began to gather the scattered firewood; a match flared in his hand; his face leaped out of the dark like a devil's.

"A poor camp," observed the imperturbable Swede when at last the tent stood upright, "no stones and precious little firewood.

The place had been equipped after a fashion by deer-hunters or mountain hikers, who brought additional furnishings to the place each year and left mouldy provisions and unconsumed firewood behind.

At all other seasons it has been used by the city immemorially to furnish earth for raising their streets and courtyards, for mortar, and other necessary purposes, and as a landing or quay for unlading firewood, lumber, and other articles brought by water.