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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... stopped to light the stub of a long-extinct cigar. "I can't make it hard for that sort of man. So I guess we'll have to take you out of the office. Still, I promised Welton to give you a good try- out. Then, too, I'm not satisfied in my ...
... stopped to light the stub of a long-extinct cigar. "I can't make it hard for that sort of man. So I guess we'll have to take you out of the office. Still, I promised Welton to give you a good try- out. Then, too, I'm not satisfied in my ...
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... stopped to look in at an open door. A dozen men were jumping truck loads of boxes here and there. Another man in a peaked cap and a silesia coat, with a pencil behind his ear and a manifold book sticking out of his pocket shouted orders ...
... stopped to look in at an open door. A dozen men were jumping truck loads of boxes here and there. Another man in a peaked cap and a silesia coat, with a pencil behind his ear and a manifold book sticking out of his pocket shouted orders ...
Strana
... stopped about noon at a small board town. Fox and Bob descended. The latter drew his lungs full of the sparkling clear air and felt inclined to shout. The thing that claimed his attention most strongly was the dull green band of the ...
... stopped about noon at a small board town. Fox and Bob descended. The latter drew his lungs full of the sparkling clear air and felt inclined to shout. The thing that claimed his attention most strongly was the dull green band of the ...
Strana
... stopped abruptly without the transitorial balancing Bob would have believed necessary, and went calmly to pushing mightily with a long pike-pole. The log on which he stood rolled under the pressure; the man quite mechanically kept pace ...
... stopped abruptly without the transitorial balancing Bob would have believed necessary, and went calmly to pushing mightily with a long pike-pole. The log on which he stood rolled under the pressure; the man quite mechanically kept pace ...
Strana
... stopped. "But I don't want to go yet, Jim," pleaded Darrell, almost tearfully. "I ain't had all my 'time' yet." "Well," said Tally, "you've been polishing up the flames of hell for four days pretty steady. What more do you want?" "I ain ...
... stopped. "But I don't want to go yet, Jim," pleaded Darrell, almost tearfully. "I ain't had all my 'time' yet." "Well," said Tally, "you've been polishing up the flames of hell for four days pretty steady. What more do you want?" "I ain ...
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