If I only knew how to circumvent the cunning of the Tetons, as I know how to cheat the fire of its prey, there would be nothing needed but thanks to the Lord for our deliverance.

Do you call this a fire?
If you had seen what I have witnessed in the Eastern hills, when mighty mountains were like the furnace of smith, you would have known what it was to fear the flames, and to be thankful that you were spared! Come, lads, come; 'tis time to be doing now, and to cease talking; for yonder curling flame is truly coming on like a trotting moose.

Put hands upon this short and withered grass where we stand, and lay bare the 'arth." "Would you think to deprive the fire of its victims in this childish manner ?" exclaimed Middleton.
A faint but solemn smile passed over the features of the old man, as he answered-- "Your grand'ther would have said, that when the enemy was nigh, a soldier could do no better than to obey." The captain felt the reproof, and instantly began to imitate the industry of Paul, who was tearing the decayed herbage from the ground in a sort of desperate compliance with the trapper's direction.

Even Ellen lent her hands to the labour, nor was it long before Inez was seen similarly employed, though none amongst them knew why or wherefore.
When life is thought to be the reward of labour, men are wont to be industrious.

A very few moments sufficed to lay bare a spot of some twenty feet in diameter.