(Homer Steeves, Flora, Jim (on sled), with dogs)
BY
THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS
A Pocket Copyright
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
1925
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
CONTENTS
II. Young Todhunter
III. Piper's Glen
VI. Games—Aboveboard and Otherwise
VIII. The Queer Old Woman
XII. Unforgivable
XIII. The Wind on the Barren
XIV. The Man-Hunter
XV. Tricky Plays
The Lure of Piper's Glen
When the bottoms drop out of thelogging-roads, the crews leave the campsabout the headwaters of Racket River andreturn to their scattered homes, leaving thewinter's cut on the "brows." A few weekslater, when all the melted snow of the hills isrushing along the watercourses, lifting andbursting the rotted ice, and the piles of brownlogs on the steep banks go rolling and thunderingdown into roaring waters, the more activeand daring of the workers return to duty withthe harassed timber. Now they wearwell-greased boots instead of oily shoepacks andlarrigans—boots with high tops strappedsecurely around the leg, and strong heels andthick soles. In the sole and heel of each bootare fixed fifty caulks or short steel spikes—ahundred teeth for every "stream-driver" tobite a foothold with into running logs.
The task of keeping the "drive" movingdown the swirling and tortuous channel ofthe upper reaches of Racket River calls forskill and agility and strength and hardihood,and frequently for a hi