It is a long time before the strip of cleared land will yield a scanty sustenance, and in the meanwhile the Bushman must, every now and then, hire himself out track-grading on the railroads or chopping trails to obtain the money that keeps him in tea and pork and flour.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Most of them are out track-grading on the branch line, and I heard the rest went East.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
In the character of the warts of the pileus there was great variation, showing typical forms of Amanita solitaria and grading into forms which might be taken for typical Amanita strobiliformis.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson