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(Homer Steeves, Flora, Jim (on sled), with dogs)
(Homer Steeves, Flora, Jim (on sled), with dogs)



THE LURE OF PIPER'S GLEN

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


I. The Cock of the River

II. Young Todhunter

III. Piper's Glen

IV. The Road to Piper's Glen

V. The Cock of the Road

VI. Games—Aboveboard and Otherwise

VII. New Business Connections

VIII. The Queer Old Woman

IX. An Awkward Situation

X. The Widow's Mite

XI. The Westward Trail

XII. Unforgivable

XIII. The Wind on the Barren

XIV. The Man-Hunter

XV. Tricky Plays




The Lure of Piper's Glen



CHAPTER I

THE COCK OF THE RIVER

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

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