 | 1923 - 428 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other: the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defense against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
 | Christopher Mulvey - 1990 - 264 páginas
...farmer moving west from Connecticut, a man in William Cobbett's rendering of the popular phrase who was 'born with an axe in one hand, and a gun in the other', was not thought to be capable of the moral stability which would give rise to such patriotism.10 But... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1995 - 558 páginas
...slowly.65 Meanwhile, there was the menace of Indians and the consequent need of ever remaining under arms ("an axe in one hand and a gun in the other, the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence").66 Furthermore, because of unaccustomed climate... | |
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... to level and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other ; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which... 
