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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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,ji_,-a,/<^^5;3^ THE WOODCUTTERS HUT By Archibald Lampmati Illustrated ry Fuank Fkench Far up in the wild and wintery hills in the heart of the cliff-broken woods,Where the mounded drifts lie soft and deep in the noiseless solitudes,The hut of the lonely woodcutter stands, a few rough beams that show,A blunted peak and a low black line, from the glittering waste of snow.In the frost-still dawn from his roof goes up in the windless, motionless air,The thin, pink curl of leisurely smoke; through the forest white and bareThe woodcutter follows his narrow trail and the morning rings and cracksWith the rhythmic jet of his sharp-blown breath and the echoing shout of his axe.Only the waft of the wind besides, or the stir of some hardy bird—The call of the friendly chickadee, or the pat of the nut-hatch—is heard ;Or a rustle comes from a dusky clump, where the busy siskins feed,And scatter the dimpled sheet of the snow with the shells of the cedar-seed.Day after day the woodc

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