id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 04-pioneers_021-1793 James Fenimore Cooper 04-pioneers_021-1793 1793 .txt text/plain 5112 182 71 There was no room for gesticulation or grace in the delivery of his reply, for the mountain was steep and slippery; and, although the Frenchman had an eye of uncommon magnitude on either side of his face, they did not seem to be half competent to forewarn him of the impediments of bushes, twigs, and fallen trees, that were momentarily crossing his path. I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark: for trees have disorders, like creatur's; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or an over heated ox to do your logging? All that is true. cache/04-pioneers_021-1793.txt txt/04-pioneers_021-1793.txt