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.

Soon she could get broken glimpses of him as he wound down the trail, now turning around the end of a fallen tree, then passing behind a giant spruce, now leaning far back while the horse felt a way cautiously down some sharp little declivity.

She needed spruce for themand to supply us and France and Italy, as well.

Then still higher up I espied some silver spruces, most exquisite trees of the mountain forests.

You all know, surely, the Hemlock spruce of America; which, while growing by itself in open ground, is the most wilful and fantastic, as well as the most graceful, of all the firs; imitating the shape, not of its kindred, but of an enormous tuft of fern.

At that moment, too, Dick Lee came tiptoeing in from his cheerless garret, and looking astonishingly spruce.

Far below them a pale mist obscured the beautiful silver spruce which had reached their upward limit.

When light snow is first powdering the spruces and bending the delicate hemlock branches, dusky shapes flit out of the green cover.

About the glade ranged the tall spruce, Watching breathlessly; and for a termless second or two a profound and portentous silence descended on the camp.

Have you ever had any experience selling skunk spruce?" Comrade Peck was plainly puzzled.

It is all very well, if you can do no better, to engage Mr. Brown to engage some one else to bring in the needed spruce, fir, and hemlock with which to obscure the fresco deformities of St. Boniface's; but it is far better to hunt for them yourself.

He put an empty bucket on the table, and with Mac's help, wedged the spruce in it firmly, between some blocks of wood and books of the law.

" "Does anybody ever buy skunk spruce, sir?" "Oh, occasionally one of our bright young men digs up a half-wit who's willing to try anything once.

Presently a porcupine waddled along some rods away, and unaware of my presence it passed by and climbed a spruce.