Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 6: Organ of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations I followed up a little meadow, where cattle grazed as I passed among them, into a narrow cove that crooked around, like an arm, into the mountain I had just descended. There were corrals and pens at the head of the pasture land, and many large troughs, hewn from pine trees, full of water. But I saw no house, and be gan to think I was tricked out of the bed and supper for which my tired limbs had been trudging on so many hours, when, turning an elbow in the cove, I saw the black mouth of a cave, and under the overhanging rocks at the entrance a very respectable log cabin. The short grass led up to the door. I was struck with the Silence of the place; no dog barked at my coming, and I saw neither cat nor chickens, the usual attendants on domestic living. Many times I had partaken of the hospitality of the ranger folk, and walked up to the house confident of a welcome and kind treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.