Beadle's Dime Novels No. 96: Little Moccasin — page 7: what you’re looking at

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LITTLE MOCCASIN, CHAPTER IL DOWN EAST—-THE LUMBERING CAMP, Tuk down-easters are to other Yankees what other Yankees are to the rest of the world, Without being dealers in wooden nifimegs, horn gun-flints, or cuckoo-clocks, they are sharp at a bargain, and not easily overreached or outwitted. They are not only hardy, adventurous, and: full of resource, but patient, especially on great occasions, and generally trustworthy ; and, whether dealing in horseflesh, timber lands or stumpage, are reasonably honest: until they find you a to be more than a match for the rest of mankind. Fer example. By the treaty of 1842 with Great Britain, it was agreed that all the timber run down the St. John, which rises in Maine, should be dealt with as if it were British. tim- ber; whereby it was understood by the down-easters, and at the time by the provincials, that where it passed through New Brunswick, it was to be free from taxation. But no sooner was the treaty ratified, than our British neighbors levied a duty on all the timber passing down the St. John, British as well as American ; and then, to satisfy their own people,;made a corresponding allowance on the stumpage to all who cut their timber on the crown lands ! This was a little too much. The challenge was accepted ; and the down-edsters went to work and opened a canal about a mile in length, and four rods in width—now greatly en- larged—through a succession of gullies between Telos Lake, the head of the St. John on this side, and Webster Pond, the head of the east branch of the Penobscot, so that the lake, being much higher, was. emptied into the pond. And when commicbooks.conn