Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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llen and moss-covered trunks is a tangle of brushwood—bramble and juniper bushes, cranberry, erowberry and whortleberry, woodsorrel, arbutus and rhododendrons, mingling with the soft carpet of mossesand lichens. Frequently there are open spaces where the still waters oflittle tarns or lakes shine out, or where their dry beds lie waiting for thenext season of high water. A sudden fall of snow works a magical change in all these forms. Butfurnishing fine pictures for admiring eyes is by no means the only purpose Russia. II of these iraal forests, (ndeed, the Russian peasanl would never dream thatsnch was any pari of their mission. Il«- Looks to them for the necessariesof life. He builds his cottage, his boat, and lii> fences from the timber ofthe fir tree; tie burns il forlighl :in<l for firewood, spreads the ashes uponthe soil for manure, and taps its roots for turpentine. The birch furnisheshim with household utensils, with baskel shoes, and with switches for his\ a por bath.
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The mountain ash ornaments his yard and supplies his table with Imarmalade. Prom the forest comes also another table delicacy, \\ il<l honej.Quantities of il are gathered every year from the hollow trunks where thebees have made their home, and a large a-mounl (s exported to othercountrie The foresl Is the home of a number of w ild animals, w hich are hunted for 12 Persons and Places in Europe. their furs and for sport. A bear-hunt is a frequent and always a highlyexciting occurrence. Several methods of attacking him are practiced; oneis to run him down with skidors, a kind of huge roller-skate, on whichthe hunters can keep up with the rapid gait of the bear and, sooner or later,tire him out. They sometimes follow him in this way for a couple of weeks,sleeping each night in the snow. Life oisr the Steppes.—The southern zone of Russia consists of aseries of plains, the eastern ones salty, sandy, and barren; the western, sorich that they have been called the granaries of Europe. Wistoriesofpersons00bene

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