The Rules of the GameGood Press, 20. 11. 2019 - Počet stran: 695 The Rules of the Game is about logging in California as well as the environmental efforts of the forest service. Stewart Edward White talks about the beginnings of California forest systems. Excerpt: "Late one fall afternoon, in the year 1898, a train paused for a moment before crossing a bridge over a river. From it descended a heavy-set, elderly man. The train immediately proceeded on its way. The heavy-set man looked about him. The river and the bottom-land growths of willow and hardwood were hemmed in, as far as he could see, by low-wooded hills." |
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... dropped his bag heavily, and looked about him with an air of comical dismay. The man was probably close to sixty years of age, but florid and vigorous. His body was heavy and round; but so were his arms and legs. An otherwise absolutely ...
... dropped his bag heavily, and looked about him with an air of comical dismay. The man was probably close to sixty years of age, but florid and vigorous. His body was heavy and round; but so were his arms and legs. An otherwise absolutely ...
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... dropping. "I didn't know that!" "Neither does anybody else. I bought it twenty years ago, under a corporation name. I was the whole corporation. Called myself the Wolverine Company." "You own ... dropped his oars across his lap to fill and.
... dropping. "I didn't know that!" "Neither does anybody else. I bought it twenty years ago, under a corporation name. I was the whole corporation. Called myself the Wolverine Company." "You own ... dropped his oars across his lap to fill and.
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Stewart Edward White. Orde dropped his oars across his lap to fill and light a pipe. "That title was deliberately clouded by an enemy to prevent my raising money at the time of the Big Jam, when I was pinched," said he. "Frank Taylor ...
Stewart Edward White. Orde dropped his oars across his lap to fill and light a pipe. "That title was deliberately clouded by an enemy to prevent my raising money at the time of the Big Jam, when I was pinched," said he. "Frank Taylor ...
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... dropped them on his desk. "Do you mean to tell me," he demanded of Harvey, "that seventeen only ran ten thousand? Why, it's preposterous! Saw it myself. It has a half-million on it, if there's a stick. Let's see Parsons's letter." While ...
... dropped them on his desk. "Do you mean to tell me," he demanded of Harvey, "that seventeen only ran ten thousand? Why, it's preposterous! Saw it myself. It has a half-million on it, if there's a stick. Let's see Parsons's letter." While ...
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... dropped on the rollers. And when the car had flown back to its starting point the "nigger" rose from obscurity to turn the log half way around. They picked their way gingerly on. Bob looked back. Against the light the two graceful ...
... dropped on the rollers. And when the car had flown back to its starting point the "nigger" rose from obscurity to turn the log half way around. They picked their way gingerly on. Bob looked back. Against the light the two graceful ...
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