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Title: The Backwoodsmen

Author: Charles G. D. Roberts

Release Date: May 24, 2009 [EBook #28960]

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THE BACKWOODSMEN

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited

LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.

TORONTO

[Illustration: "Red McWha's big form shot past." _(See page 136)_]

THE BACKWOODSMEN

BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

AUTHOR OF "THE KINDRED OF THE WILD," "THE HOUSE
IN THE WATER," "THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1909,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1909.

Copyright, 1906, 1907, 1908, by THE CENTURY COMPANY,
EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, APPLETON'S MAGAZINE, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION,
THE LADIES' WORLD, THE DELINEATOR, HAMPTON'S BROADWAY MAGAZINE,
T. Y. CROWELL & COMPANY.

Norwood Press

J. S. Gushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
The Vagrants of the Barren 1
MacPhairrson's Happy Family 22
On Big Lonely 53
From Buck to Bear and Back 70
In the Deep of the Snow 81
The Gentling of Red McWha 112
Melindy and the Lynxes 144
Mrs. Gammit's Pig 156
The Blackwater Pot 177
The Iron Edge of Winter 201
The Grip in Deep Hole