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Excerpt from The Backwoodsmen
But being a woodsman, and alert in every sense like the creatures of the wild themselves, his wits were awake almost before his body was, and his instincts were even quicker than his wits. The desolation and the savage cold of the wilderness had admonished him even in that terrifying moment. As he leaped out in desperate ?ight, he had snatched with him not only the blankets, but his ri?e and cartridge-belt from where they stood by the head of the bunk, and also his larrigans and great blanket coat from where they lay by its foot. He had been Sleeping, according to custom, almost fully clothed.
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