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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... fire him. Don't tell any of your people that he's the son of a friend. Let him stand on his own feet. If he's any good we'll work him into the old game. Just give him a job, and keep an eye on him for me, to see how well he does." "Jack ...
... fire him. Don't tell any of your people that he's the son of a friend. Let him stand on his own feet. If he's any good we'll work him into the old game. Just give him a job, and keep an eye on him for me, to see how well he does." "Jack ...
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... turn. The place swarmed with men, all busily engaged in handing the boards from one to another as buckets are passed at a fire. At each point where an unending stream of them passed over the side of each ship, stood a young man.
... turn. The place swarmed with men, all busily engaged in handing the boards from one to another as buckets are passed at a fire. At each point where an unending stream of them passed over the side of each ship, stood a young man.
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... fires , the blackness and mass of silent lumber yards , the mysterious , hushing fingers of the ships ' masts , and ... fire in the big stove outside his door . The bell rang . Men knocked ashes from their pipes and arose ; other men ...
... fires , the blackness and mass of silent lumber yards , the mysterious , hushing fingers of the ships ' masts , and ... fire in the big stove outside his door . The bell rang . Men knocked ashes from their pipes and arose ; other men ...
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... fire. To Bob's exclamation of astonishment he looked up. "Sunday," he grinned; "breakfus' at eight." The week had gone without Bob's having realized the fact. Mrs. Hallowell came in a moment later, smiling at the winning, handsome young ...
... fire. To Bob's exclamation of astonishment he looked up. "Sunday," he grinned; "breakfus' at eight." The week had gone without Bob's having realized the fact. Mrs. Hallowell came in a moment later, smiling at the winning, handsome young ...
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... fire surrounded by high frames on which hung a few drying clothes, a rough table, and a cooking fire over which bubbled tremendous kettles and fifty-pound lard tins suspended from a rack. A man sat on a cracker box reading a fragment of ...
... fire surrounded by high frames on which hung a few drying clothes, a rough table, and a cooking fire over which bubbled tremendous kettles and fifty-pound lard tins suspended from a rack. A man sat on a cracker box reading a fragment of ...
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