Gaut Gurley
Thompson, D. P., 1795-1868
English
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GAUT GURLEY;
OR,
THE TRAPPERS OF UMBAGOG.
A TALE OF BORDER LIFE.
BY
D. P. THOMPSON,
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime.--A Display
Party to avoid Bankruptcy.--Gaut Gurley, and other leading Characters,
introduced as Actors in this scene of City Life.
CHAPTER II.
Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money, to become
a "Solid Man of Boston."--Humble Beginnings.--Tempted into Smuggling from
Canada in Embargo times, and makes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperate
and daring Services of Gaut Gurley.--A Sketch of the Wild Scenes of
Smuggling over the British line into Vermont and New Hampshire.--Removal to
the City.
CHAPTER III.
Gambling (an allegory) invented by the Fiends, and is proclaimed the
Premium Vice by Lucifer.--A Gambling Scene between Gaut Gurley and the
merchant, Mark Elwood.--The Failure of the latter.--The Refusal of his
brother, Arthur Elwood, to help him.--The Surprise and Distress of his
Family.
CHAPTER IV.
The Downward Path of the Habitual Gambler.--His Family sharing in the
Degradation, and becoming the suffering Victims of his Vices.--The Sudden
Resolve to be a Man again, and remove to an unsettled Country, to begin
Life anew in the Woods.
CHAPTER V.
The moral and intellectual Influences of Forest Life.--Scenery of
Umbagog.--Description of Elwood's new Home in the Woods.--The Burning of
his first _Slash_.--His House catches Fire, and he and his Wife engage
in extinguishing it, praying for the return of their Son, Claud Elwood, to
help them in their terrible strait.
CHAPTER VI.
Claud Elwood and his Forest Musings.--Dangerous Assault, and slaying of a
Moose.--Rescue of Gaut's Daughter from the enraged animal.--Strange
Developments.--Incipient Love Scene.--Trout-catching.--Return of Claud and
Phillips (the Old Hunter here first introduced), to aid in saving the
Elwood Cottage from the fire.--The Thunder-shower comes to complete the
conquest of the fire.--The destruction of the King Pine by a Thunderbolt.
CHAPTER VII.
Journey up the Magalloway, to bring home the slaughtered Moose.--Love and
its entanglements; its Sunshine now, its Storms in the distance.
CHAPTER VIII.
Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake, for
Deer-hunting and Trout-catching.--Rescue of Fluella, the Indian Chief's
Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids.--Her remarkable Character for
Intellect and Beauty.
CHAPTER IX.
The Logging Bee.--The introduction of a New Character in Comical Codman,
the Trapper.--The Woodmen's Banquet.--The forming of the Trapping and
Hunting Company, to start on an Expedition to the Upper Lakes.
CHAPTER X.
Developments of the dark and designing character of Gaut Gurley.---Tomah,
the college-learned Indian.
CHAPTER XI.
Mrs. Elwood's Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband and Son
with Gaut and his Daughter.--Her Interview with Fluella.--Claud's Interview
with Fluella and her Father, the Chief.--The Chief's History of his Tribe.
CHAPTER XII.
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