Produced by Wendy Crockett, David Moynihan, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime.—A DisplayParty to avoid Bankruptcy.—Gaut Gurley, and other leading Characters,introduced as Actors in this scene of City Life.
Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money, to becomea "Solid Man of Boston."—Humble Beginnings.—Tempted into Smuggling fromCanada in Embargo times, and makes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperateand daring Services of Gaut Gurley.—A Sketch of the Wild Scenes ofSmuggling over the British line into Vermont and New Hampshire.—Removal tothe City.
Gambling (an allegory) invented by the Fiends, and is proclaimed thePremium Vice by Lucifer.—A Gambling Scene between Gaut Gurley and themerchant, Mark Elwood.—The Failure of the latter.—The Refusal of hisbrother, Arthur Elwood, to help him.—The Surprise and Distress of hisFamily.
The Downward Path of the Habitual Gambler.—His Family sharing in the
Degradation, and becoming the suffering Victims of his Vices.—The Sudden
Resolve to be a Man again, and remove to an unsettled Country, to begin
Life anew in the Woods.
The moral and intellectual Influences of Forest Life.—Scenery ofUmbagog.—Description of Elwood's new Home in the Woods.—The Burning ofhis first Slash.—His House catches Fire, and he and his Wife engagein extinguishing it, praying for the return of their Son, Claud Elwood, tohelp them in their terrible strait.
Claud Elwood and his Forest Musings.—Dangerous Assault, and slaying of a
Moose.—Rescue of Gaut's Daughter from the enraged animal.—Strange
Developments.—Incipient Love Scene.—Trout-catching.—Return of Claud and
Phillips (the Old Hunter here first introduced), to aid in saving the
Elwood Cottage from the fire.—The Thunder-shower comes to complete the
conquest of the fire.—The destruction of the King Pine by a Thunderbolt.
Journey up the Magalloway, to bring home the slaughtered Moose.—Love andits entanglements; its Sunshine now, its Storms in the distance.
Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake, for
Deer-hunting and Trout-catching.—Rescue of Fluella, the Indian Chief's
Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids.—Her remarkable Character for
Intellect and Beauty.
The Logging Bee.—The introduction of a New Character in Comical Codman,the Trapper.—The Woodmen's Banquet.—The forming of the Trapping andHunting Company, to start on an Expedition to the Upper Lakes.
Developments of the dark and designing character of Gaut Gurley.—-Tomah,the college-learned Indian.
Mrs. Elwood's Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband and Sonwith Gaut and his Daughter.—Her Interview with Fluella.—Claud's Interviewwith Fluella and her Father, the Chief.—The Chief's History of his Tribe.
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