Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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The Builders 725 A pull here and a tug there, and the logrolled across the platform, and settled in itsplace on the car, handled by steam and bysteam alone from the time when the fall-ers and sawyers had brought it crashingto earth, and cut it into sections. This was not the limit, however, of theresourcefulness of the donkey. Nosooner had this log been gripped by theback of the neck and flung aboard a car,than the gang back there in the woods hadmade another log fast to the trailing cable?Not a second was wasted. When the firstlog settled on the car a second was crashingand leaping through the forest. It waseven more impressive to learn that whenthe yard is cleared, and it is time tomove to another forest tract, the donkeyloads itself aboard a flat car by a processanalogous to that of lifting ones self by thebootstraps. The cables are belayed to con-venient trees, the donkey takes hold,the drums revolve, and the astute enginehauls itself along, until it is close to theloading platfor

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