Then this queer little companya Denver bank-clerk, an ex-schoolmaster from Nova Scotia, an Irish-American lawyer from San Francisco, a Kentucky "Colonel" who had never smelt powder, and "the Boy" (who was no boy at all, but a man of twenty-two)these five set to work felling trees, clearing away the snow, and digging foundations for a couple of log-cabinsone for the Trio, as they called themselves, the other for the Colonel and the Boy.

But Potts and O'Flynn were really sick and sore from their recent slight attack of wood-felling.

But few things on earth are more exasperating than trying to work mounted on clumsy, long web-feet that keep jarring against, yet holding you off from, the tree you are felling, or the fire you are cooking over.

But the real trouble came when, after felling the dead tree, splitting an armful of fuel and carrying it to the Colonel, he returned to the task of cutting down the tough green spruce for their bedding.

The shells went tearing and crashing through the woods, felling trees in their course and spreading havoc wherever they fell.

Darrin's clenched right fist caught the fop on the temple, felling him to the ground.

At one point we met a gang of Negroes felling timber to widen the road.

A little later there was a crash in the timber on the opposite side of the pond, where another workman had succeeded in felling a tree.

" =208.= THE FELLING OF A GREAT TREE.

Yet the felling of a great tree has something of the sublime in it.

Every morning the overseer called the roll, when every slave must answer to his or her name, felling to the ground with his cowhide, any delinquent who failed to speak out in quick time.

Herrington and his gang of slaves was sent to the east side to chop down the heavy timber and clear the land for cultivation, all of which had first to be learned, for we knew nothing of felling trees, and the poor slaves had rather a hard time of it.

"Aha," said his master, "that's the very place for you, my man!" THE HUNTER AND THE WOODMAN A Hunter was searching in the forest for the tracks of a lion, and, catching sight presently of a Woodman engaged in felling a tree, he went up to him and asked him if he had noticed a lion's footprints anywhere about, or if he knew where his den was.

At the Musical Festival of 1876 Madame Patey sang a song of mine, "The Felling of the Trees," and I repeated my little experience as a conductor; but in 1885, when my cantata "Yule Tide" was included in the festival scheme,

* * ANCIENT SUPERSTITION RESPECTING FELLING OAKS.

For example, settlers are felling trees and fighting stumps in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Peter and some of the younger children were away felling stringybark-trees for the sustenance of the sheep.

When I was in the forest felling timber, My wife came running out in mortal fear.

The Americans in the meantime made good use of their axes, felling trees for a breastwork, and when assailed they beat back and finally completely routed their assailants.

In return the Indians were determined at all costs and hazards to keep the men of chain and compass, and of axe and rifle, and the forest-felling settlers who followed them, out of their vast and lonely hunting-grounds.

All through the winter months they work in the woods from sunrise to sunset, felling the best trees and cutting them into logs.

Any person found felling trees across this road, or otherwise impeding the operations of cavalry by building brush, stump, rail, or stone fences across this road, will be arrested and tried before a court on charge of aiding and giving comfort to the enemy.

Then followed a scene in which the man, without the lady, was looking on at a number of Orientals busy in the felling of trees.

But how these thoughts came to display the unknown facts concerning the garden by the river, the felling of trees for a camp, and the bare feet, is a question about which it is vain to theorise.

As usual, they had a Maori with them to assist in felling trees.