The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars

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A Book of Two Wars
HAROLD FREDERIC
AUTHOR OF IN THE VALLEY, SETH'S BROTHER'S WIFE, THE COPPERHEAD, ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
MERRILL, SANDHAM, GILBERT GAUL AND GEORGE FOSTER BARNES
BOSTON LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright, 1898, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
All rights reserved.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
THE DESERTER.
It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold.