As soon as they had boiled coffee and eaten a supper of meat and toasted biscuits, Joan went into the tent and dropped exhausted on her thick bed of balsam boughs, wrapping herself and the baby up close in the skins and blankets.

Then, entering the forest of balsam firs, the force of the wind was lessened, and he made good time up the first part of the grade.

"You see that clump of low balsam trees on that point yonder," said my boatman, as we lay upon our oars, pointing in the direction indicated.

He helped to build their balsam shelter for the night, ate a huge supper of moose meat, hot-stone biscuits, beans and coffee, and then, just as he had stretched himself out in his furs for the night, he remembered Gregson's warning.

She had slunk back a dozen feet and lay crouched under the thick cover of a balsam shrub.

Especially the tent, with the bed of balsam branches still smoothed and flattened by the pressure of his body, seemed to bring his presence near to them.

Among other things he had eaten perhaps half a quart of spruce and balsam needles.

When they had passed through the little clearing, and the darkness of the spruce and balsam walls shut them in, he took her hand.

Thus am Ithus I was until todayand this fountain of my heart, always without an outlet, suddenly finds its way to the light, and banks of balsam-breathing fields, blooming like paradise, accompany it on its way.

I folded my letter, sealed it with a bit of blue balsam gum, and bade Mount deliver it to the Oneida runner, while I stepped up the road.

She will adventure all her estate for such a night, for a nectarean, a balsam kiss alone.

But the scent was that of a he-bear, and it drifted strongly up a rock-cut ravine that ran straight down toward the balsam patch in which he had hidden the caribou.

He went back to the balsam thicket, but the gorged cub now made no effort to follow him.

Pierre Radisson lay on his balsam bed, with nothing over him now but the gray sky and the spruce-tops.