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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... road. His hat was gone and he was liberally plastered with the soft mud of early spring. Not one word would he vouchsafe, but looked at them all malevolently. His intoxication seemed to have evaporated with his good spirits. As answer ...
... road. His hat was gone and he was liberally plastered with the soft mud of early spring. Not one word would he vouchsafe, but looked at them all malevolently. His intoxication seemed to have evaporated with his good spirits. As answer ...
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... road to success in this world - the beginning at the bottom , as Bob was doing ; close application ; accuracy ; frugality ; honesty ; fair dealing . The homiletic magazines omitted idealism and imagination ; but perhaps those qualities ...
... road to success in this world - the beginning at the bottom , as Bob was doing ; close application ; accuracy ; frugality ; honesty ; fair dealing . The homiletic magazines omitted idealism and imagination ; but perhaps those qualities ...
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... road, deep with mud and water, beginning at this point, plunged into the wilderness. That was all. Welton thrust his ... road wound and changed direction entirely according to expedient. It was a "tote road" merely, cutting across these ...
... road, deep with mud and water, beginning at this point, plunged into the wilderness. That was all. Welton thrust his ... road wound and changed direction entirely according to expedient. It was a "tote road" merely, cutting across these ...
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... road climbed out of the swamp into the hardwoods , full of warmth and light and new young green , and the voices of many creatures ; with the soft , silent carpet of last autumn's brown , the tiny patches of melting snow , and the pools ...
... road climbed out of the swamp into the hardwoods , full of warmth and light and new young green , and the voices of many creatures ; with the soft , silent carpet of last autumn's brown , the tiny patches of melting snow , and the pools ...
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Stewart Edward White. "That road," he said, pointing to a dim track, "goes down to Thompson's. He's a settler. Lives on a little lake. "There's a deer," he remarked, "over in that thicket against the hill." Bob looked closely, but could ...
Stewart Edward White. "That road," he said, pointing to a dim track, "goes down to Thompson's. He's a settler. Lives on a little lake. "There's a deer," he remarked, "over in that thicket against the hill." Bob looked closely, but could ...
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