Our camp is the other side of the balsam thicket there, and after you have built your own, we will come down and pass an hour with you, unless we should disturb you in your occupation or your pleasure.
Around the cabin marched a scattering of the balsam fir.
Then, entering the forest of balsam firs, the force of the wind was lessened, and he made good time up the first part of the grade.
The sun was setting behind the Balsam Range, and threw a cheerful glow over the oak and the pump and the little group, when a loose-jointed figure came across the fields.
The sun was going down, throwing the shadow of a great peak of the Balsam Range over the house and the neat farm with its Pennsylvania barn and fences.
Up in the mountains the two brothers ploughed, trapped, dug ginseng and climbed the peaks for balsam with hot, steady zeal to earn the little money which was needed to pay for his schooling.
When the rags are thoroughly saturated with balsam, they are squeezed out and then thrown into an earthen pot filled with boiling water, whereby the balsam is detached and collects on the bottom of the vessel.
Crude Peruvian balsam is a gray-green to dirty-yellow fluid, of the consistency of syrup.
Commercial Tolu balsam is frequently more or less mixed with vegetable remains, which, however, can be readily detected with the microscope, especially after the solution of the resinous constituents.
According to Holmes and Nalor, a Tolu balsam differing in its chemical behavior is found in the English wholesale trade.
The collection of balsam continues until the first rain falls in April or May, when the work ceases.
The supply being frequently insufficient, the balsam is subjected to many adulterations.
A vigorous tree, well treated, yields balsam for 30 years in succession, and if then allowed to rest 5 or 6 years can be used several years longer.
A mixture of cinnamic acid and any of the fatty acids present in the Peru balsam is thereby obtained, which, after treatment with water, remains in the residue.
In commerce two varieties of Tolu balsam are found, one of the consistency of turpentine and the other solid.
The author just named, describes the "balsam of Aaron" as a very fine oil, which emits no scent or smell, and is very proper for preparing odoriferous ointments.
The pine and fir cones are growing well, resin and balsam dripping from every tree, and seeds are ripening fast, promising a fine harvest.
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fibre thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves.
The air is distinctly fragrant with balsam and resin and mint,--every breath of it a gift we may well thank God for.
This rule holds good also with land animals, such as marten, those living in and resorting to black spruce swamps being invariably dark colored, whereas those in mixed pine, birch and balsam hills are larger and lighter in color.
My rifle lay alongside of me on the balsam brush, with the muzzle pointing toward the fire, and, unconsciously my hand grasped the stock and my fore finger toyed with the trigger.
Here he tramped a hole in soft snow and strewed some balsam branches on the bottom upon which he crouched and waited.
And a good bed of balsam boughs," added Bob, "and a fine camp fire, and we can sit wound it and talk it all over.
There were no pine needles of balsam boughs, but fatigue made a fine mattress, and it was not long before the tired boys, rolled up in their blankets, were fast asleep on the soft sand.
It was swung between two balsam firs, and the young people, leaving the judge therein, his cap pulled down over his eyes, went back to the piazza.
Oh," cried Edna, "so it was fir balsam you wanted to get, Sylvia.
And the maiden departed from her, and went and poured of the balsam upon Owain, and left the horse and the garments hard by, and went a little way off and hid herself to watch him.
Did he even recognize the significance of the apparition when a swift, erect figure stepped openly from under the shadowy boughs of the balsam firs into the middle of the road, that the bead might be drawn straight?
The aroma of cedar and balsam came to him more clearly, and he heard more distinctly the murmuring surge of the river.
A stronger breath of air came laden with the perfume of balsam and cedar through his window, and when the door opened and Cardigan entered, he found the old Kent facing him.
The smell of it, like the smell of balsam and cedar, was to Kent the aroma of life.
Shoreward he made out the dark outlines of the deep spruce and cedar and balsam forests.
The shimmer of spruce and cedar and balsam turned to a somber black.
Even in the rain the tang of cedar and balsam came to him faintly.
He took the balsam and pitch of the fir-tree and smeared the seams so that no water might ooze in, and he asked for the quills of Kagh, the hedgehog, to make a necklace and two stars for his canoe.
Of yourbalsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter That the river may not wet me!
The world was filled with a fragrance of fir-balsam and the faintest flavor of seaweed from the ledges, bare and brown at low tide in the little harbor.
Some knavish rascal had thrust burdocks into his hair and another had smeared his face with balsam sap.
The wine is all out of your system, and there is balsam in your blood.
That the Balsam Plant hath grown and prospered in Judaea we believe without dispute.
The entire floor space inside the shack was covered withbalsam boughs.
The woods are full of pillows," assured Bettie, who was helping with the balsam twigs.
Sure enough, there was a bed--some balsam boughs covered with a dingy blanket and some rags that had once been a quilt.
Provisions were placed under cover, fresh balsam beds were arranged in the three sleeping tents--Dave brought the boughs and made the beds--and the girls stored their bundles of clothing in their big bedroom.
A whiff of balsam is an invitation to share the abandon of the woods, and awakens memories of the halcyon days, the shining hours, when nutting and berrying were the real things of life.
Yet the summit was rocky and covered for the most part with stunted balsam as thickly matted together as a hedge.
If you have really seen that flower of the solitudes, you have seen the mossy rock overhanging it, the spruce cones lying thick about; sniffed the balsam and heard the veery on the mountain.
Should the balsam be too thick, use a little turpentine.
The colours for slide-painting can either be bought ready prepared, or ground down on plate glass and mixed by Canada balsam or mastic varnish.
After following the trail a ways I concluded that the deer would pass around the point of the ridge and pass through a hardwood balsam on the other side of the ridge.
I climbed the hill and made for the balsam in hope to head the deer off.
That," said Don Quixote, "would have been unnecessary if I had remembered to make a bottleful of the balsam of Fierabras, for with only one drop of it both time and medicines are saved.
The maiden departed from her, and went and poured of thebalsam upon Owain, and left the horse and garments hard by, and went a little way off and hid herself to watch him.
Then thou shalt give me two draughts of the balsam I have mentioned, and I shall become as sound as an apple.
At this moment the balsam that Don Quixote had swallowed began to make him very sick, and Sancho Panza ran off to search in his wallet for something that might cure him.
The balsam poplar grows to the height of twenty feet.
There are no hard woods, the only deciduous trees that attain merchantable measurements being the canoe birch, the aspen and balsam poplars and the tamarack.
White and black spruce, tamarack, aspen, balsam and canoe birch form the forest surrounding Cross lake, the deciduous trees for the most part growing only in a fringe along the immediate shores.
Mr. Low reports the soil about Deer lake as being “very thin and the timber correspondingly poor, except on a few low points where some white spruce, balsam and poplar exceed fifteen inches in diameter.
The balsam poplar, or as it is called here, cottonwood, is very plentiful and very large, trees nearly four feet in diameter being often seen, though between two or three feet is the average diameter of the trees.
The surface is all heavily wooded and there are many very large trees, both spruce and balsam poplar.
For the first forty miles the banks are well wooded with white spruce, canoe birch, aspen and balsam poplar.
On the shores of Sandy lake Mr. Low saw many trees of white spruce, poplar, birch and balsam exceeding eighteen inches in diameter.
Mr. Stewart did not see any balsam in the Arctic circle; aspen, white poplar, balm of Gilead and birch are all found down as far as Fort McPherson.
Of varieties the principal are spruce and poplar; of the poplar there are two kinds, one of which, the balsam poplar, in some places grows to be a very large size.
Martin river and chain of lakes emptying into the long northern arm of the lake as thickly wooded with aspen, balsam poplar, canoe-birch, white spruce and Banksian pine.
The Cubs then made out a pile of balsam boughs neatly piled against the wall.
Mr. Hatfield had bent down to examine the pile of balsam boughs.
Not far from the pile of balsam boughs lay the Navajo blanket which had disappeared from the Cub camp a few days earlier!
Take hold of the slide by one corner and pour on to it a sufficient quantity of the balsam and benzole to cover it.
