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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt:...a few acres of cultivated land on the interval between the Wilson stream and the base of the granite mountain on which we arc standing; and there, dose by the margin of the river, you see a small, "" house. In that house there lives, and has lived for some ten years past, on old man by the name of Peter Brawn. He is often designated in that vicinity by the miliar appellation of Uncle Pete. Nothing, however, could be more appropriate than his true name, so accurately and forcibly does the sign represent the thing signified; for a more vigorous, athletic, and brtnony 'Id man, you will not find one in a thousand. He must be over seventy years of age, for his long thin locks are silvery white, and though he has one or two children in their minority still with him, he has numerous ""% and daughters who have reached the middle age TM "fe, and gone abroad into the world with families of 'heir own. The old man is full six feet in height, and stands as straight as an arrow. He is neither decidedly fleshy, nor lean; but stout, bony and musculous. From tits natural constitution and habits of life he evidently Possesses great strength, and is capable of enduring great hardships. He has for many years been a sort of pioneer to the frontier settlers in the interior of Maine, "'"ays keeping a little in advance of them, preferring to live alone in the woods, where, unshackled by the restraints of society or the statute, he can feel that he is--monarch of all he surveys,' And--' lord of the fowl and the brute.' I am told, that before taking up his residence in this wild spot, he had several limes pitched his tent in the wilderness, and tarried for a few years, till civilization and settlements overtook him, and thickened around him, to such a d...