Excerpt from Glory of the Pines: A Tale of the Ontonagon In some instances names of the old forest friends with whom it has been my pleasure either to work or play have been retained. Their good nature will not permit them to resent what seemed necessary in recounting the scenes of a happy fellowship with them. Fictitious names for such sincere men and women seem a kind of sacrilege. It is here taken for granted that people generally appre ciate the portrayal of life where reality and the note of honor and manhood emerge sur prisingly from rugged and unconventional men. With this thought in mind there are here set down some of the striking features of a woods parish, enlarged upon now and then. 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.