Already in my calculation I had traversed many times the distance, when, with a jump at the heart, I made out a glow ahead, and in front of it the upright logs of the stockade.

There was the beginning of a log in the ensign's handwriting, which Ives had found with high excitement and read with bitter disappointment.

Thus Mark Hopkins is in himself a university, given a boy on the other end of the log on which he sits.

He did not feel called upon to help to split logs for the roof of the Big Cabin, but he sat cutting and whittling away at a little shelf which he said was to be nailed up at the right of the Big Cabin door.

" Constance had set to work poking the fire logs with the tongs.

" They drove to the river bank, a mile away, and sat on a fallen log at the head of a ravine, which fell sharply to the river below.

To Dennis and others remained the arduous labour of guiding, with the help of windlasses, these immense logs to the river, whence they would descend in due time to the inlet, there to be joined together into vast rafts, later on again to be towed to their destination.

WINTER When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

" They took off the top log from the south wall of the cabin, measured a two-foot space in the middle, and the Colonel sawed out the superfluous spruce intervening.

Each cabin was about fourteen feet square, containing but one room, and was covered with oak boards, three feet in length, split out of logs by hand.

Mr. Wood let Miss Laura spread it on some flat rocks, then they sat down on a log under a tree and watched them eating it and licking the rocks when it was all gone.

A huge thrush was thinking about commencing to build his nest, and in the meantime sat upon a fallen log across the way and sang about it.

" Among the other things the pioneers had accomplished was the building of a table large enough to seat the entire Patrol, with planks set on logs as seats.

Hark to the tiny rustling just beyond the log against which we lie!" "Yes, I hear it, and what do you make of it, Tayoga?" "Rabbits seeking their nests.

On a log beside him sat a girl of perhaps eighteen years, exceedingly handsome with the flaming kind of beauty like a poppy's, striking to the eye, shallow-petaled.

He dragged in log after log, piled them on the fire until the flames leaped tip to the crisping needles of the limbs above, and heaped a supply close at hand for use later in the night.

No log had stopped in this place before; Mamie saw that it was caught by a small rock, and held fast by the other logs behind it.

Without heeding for a moment my anxious inquiries as to what was the matter, he kept right on, leaping the logs like a deer, looking neither to the right hand nor the left, but with his coat tail sticking out on a dead level behind, making a straight wake for home.

We laid him by the side of the road and rolled two or three logs over him.

[They go to a log near by.]

The blazing beach, the misty mountains, the hot trade-wind, the fantastic leaves overhead, the black limbs and faces, the horses eating palm-leaves, and we sitting on logs among the strange ungainly Montrichardias, drinking 'Ramornie' out of bamboo, washing it down with milk from green coconutswas this, too, a scene in a pantomime?

The breaking crests of the waves, which were glancing off in foam, also gave him great annoyance, for such was their force, that, more than once, he was hurled helpless as a log before them.

I sat on a log until almost sunset.

The mother was to take the glowing log out of the fire and bury it in the garden, and her child would live as long as it remained unconsumed.

One night he sprang up in affright at the sound of something moving or scratching at a log outside his cabin.