"You see, you can't build anything with wood that's better than a log-cabin.

Maudie's log-cabin was a cheerful place, its one room, neatly kept, lined throughout with red and white drill, hung with marten and fox, carpeted with wolf and caribou.

Above, high on log-cabin staging, windlasses.

" They left their packs just inside the door of the log-cabin, indicated as "Bunk House for the men on No. 6, Above"a fearsome place, where, on shelf above shelf, among long unwashed bedclothes, the unwashed workmen of a prosperous company lay in the stupor of sore fatigue and semi-asphyxiation.

We are so ancient that plenty of us remember the stone fireplace in the log-cabin, with its dusters for the hearth of buffalo tail and wild-turkey wing, with iron pot hung by a chain from the chimney hook, with pewter or wooden plates from which to eat with horn-handled knives and iron spoons.

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.

In those long mornings, when Dennis was in the study explaining to map-peddlers that I had eleven maps of Jerusalem already, and to school-book agents that I would see them hanged before I would be bribed to introduce their textbooks into the schoolsshe and I were at work together, as in those old dreamy daysand in these of our log-cabin again.

When we had left the horses (near a fascinating log-cabin in the woods), and Mr. Hilliard had arranged for their comfort, we walked about, picking out the princes and princesses and knowing quite well from the look of them which was which.

Hospitality was not then an empty name; every log-cabin was freely thrown open to all who chose to share in the best cheer its inmates could afford.

When we entered the long, low log-cabin, he was boiling doughnuts, as was to be expected.

" Once on a time a maiden dwelt with her father,they two, and no more,in a rude log-cabin on the skirts of a grand old Western forest,majestic mountains behind them, and the broad, free prairie in front.

The log-cabin and hard-cider watchwords were born of a taunt, like the "Gueux" of the Netherlands.

In actual practice his log-cabin slave quarters gave place to frame houses; his mules were kept in full force; his production of corn and bacon was nearly always ample for the needs of each place; his slaves were permitted to raise nankeen cotton on their private accounts; and his own frequent journeys of inspection and stimulus, as he said, kept up an esprit du corps.

Tomorrow we move into the log-cabin, where we shall do our own work, and send the servants off for a week's holiday.

"Save for its good example, the log-cabin experiment was not a success.

The Curé of Portage Dernier drove up to the log-cabin office and shook himself from his blankets; his soutane was rolled up around his waist and secured with safety-pins; his solid legs were encased in the heaviest of woollen trousers and innumerable long stockings.

Near it stands the log-cabin where its master lived while it was building, a very ornamental accessory.

Ten years after the settlement and incidents related in the preceding chapters, it would have been difficult to recognise the log-cabin in the substantial farm-house that occupied its place.

One turns back to his first sermon, that evening when, with his fellow-student in Virginia, he walked across the fields to the log-cabin where, not yet in holy orders, he preached it, and where afterward he ministered with such swiftly increasing power to a handful of negro servants.

In "American Pioneers," II., 445, is a full description of the better sort of backwoods log-cabin.

The home of the average Loyalist was a log-cabin.

Haught was a famed bear hunter who lived in a log-cabin somewhere up under the rim of the mesa.

Another way is to cut the bread into delicate fingers, pile it log-cabin fashion, and garnish the centre with a stuffed olive.

A place about forty feet square had been cleared of the trees and bushes and in it stood a small, neatly-built, log-cabin, which Frank and some of his companions had erected the winter previous.

Fillmore had been rocked in a sap-trough in a log-cabin scarcely better than Lincoln's early shelter, and the two might perhaps have played an even match at splitting rails.