[Quote] The sugar camp stands on the edge of the woods….
All year round until late in February the sugar camp belongs to the wild things. Then one morning when the snow begins to melt and the earth to heave and the fields and pastures to stream with water, men come to the place and take it over. There is a great bustle and activity and....

Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishng, 1943), Ch. 15, pp.248-259, pp. 248, and 250-252 inclusive.