Show A life liro 4 1 e 1 I 1 I lifo a among mong Wl Loggers 7 meli yeli need not visit in imagination the three hu hundred lumber camps of ma ne to seek diversity they are all the counterparts of this tili the sturdy workmen are the same and their occupation differs in nowise only at times may be 14 found among the crews a cinnamon color ed id or penobscot Indian who has been forced from barbarism into barnin earning his daily salt flait wiel wielding dil the ax as their forefathers did the tomahawk and making the chips fly as they did brains or perchance some stray son of E erin n or a chiel chiei from the land 0 cakes rees NITS whether r storming the shelvi shelving Dg terraces of 0 the mountains and hurling the forest monar archis is from their dizzy heights swamping in ahe he lowlands or cutting the stately pines pinea from the borgers of placid lakes into which they have looked and watched their growth for centuries the labor is only divested by the change chang of locality yet there are many seasons of mirth and festivity during the he winter many any a pleasing adventure and many an exciting chase now following the moose on now snow shoes over the sparkling snow crust or examining snares set imen ingeniously 7 1 bously across the paths he frequents setting betting traps for bears or smoking them out from their bi bismal quarters f these are the sports spores par excellence of the anter time ah the ion lon long iong eveh evenings ings after the toils of the gay day eay are over and frid the ile grumbl ings of empty sto stomach marh V have been prop propitiated by ample ampie e f eases ka generous lib libations actions of tea and coal coffee e e h um fals are rolled upon the campfire camp fire and th fleady J dy fervent flames seizing the dry and t denaer e ilke like e bark barkr shoot up in lurid sheets of b blaze ie casting sting fantastic shadows upon the blackened kae kah a C ve ed walls wall slighting 1 ahting up the bearded faces of VE th the e 19 u in lumber diffusing a genial gemal w warman ar mt throughout the iong long apartment black stemmed pipes are drawn from private crannie sand dense clouds of smoke from their capacious bowls float in slum sluggish mish wish wreaths amori among the rafters and genuine content rests blandly 3 on every brow what reeks it ta then len ien whether the storm rages without or the driving sleet pelts mercilessly upon the roof or the piercing blasts shriek and moan through let old boreas pile the snow drifts high b far above the tumult of the elements aes rises a full chorus from a score of and those old logging songs which the luni iuni bermen termen love so well are sting sung with stress and oft repeated peals of laughter shake the while jest after jest goes round and now by 9 special request Long john clears for some simple ditty a plaintive sod sou g df d love and home awhile the tune comes clear and full no sound disturbs the melody save the napping snapping of the burn burning ingwood wood and a the musical hissing of the hickory sap then if tiie tile essing hour has hot bot already made the eyelids heavy stories of personal experience and hair hai breath escapes pass from mouth to mouth feelingly recited and attentively heard alil anil uninterrupted except by the fitful gusts whistling around the corners of the cabin or the hou how of the s starving ta arving woly wolves outside at al lenith length after a long iong and marvelous I 1 aLj a 1 come Gome tom says harry let out a hol hoi hole hoie in fit your belt beit elt eit and roll out some of your doings this last ten years for this child feels tire bo uie nie ilie llie e and needs heeds a whopper to keep his eye spen ll 11 june g grass tass to a horse fed on oats all ali his days daysi my ary yarns shinei alongside of yourn go ahead yourself and tell us about that scrape you and aram I 1 r goud had with the she catamount rv OH tas tab of no account but bue here cip cap lies lles ile lle Is knocked around some in his after you is manners for me wp no dont back 24 cly cry a dozen voices to together ether let us have on one 10 3 affus appealed to the old veteran taps his big pi pipe e upon the heel of his boot to clear it of a ashes L t n and d having hemmed twice for g ginsb in awag joncas I 1 about rutting time y maybe but you wont believe me so its no use telling telli ngit it frob froh go on of course well believe banat cant wem w I 1 ackein kean honest mans word go goon on go S 90 gf 10 urged all old lo logger loer er once more parts faits his alp i and proceeds in imis iris this wise avell JV I 1 ve ell eil fi as a s I 1 was saying owen owed smith and I 1 w was as cuttin cutting timber on the eau galle out on the fox niver river river niver improvement in wisconsin amt aft P r and burmer burner was thick in them diggins digging aboaf that time and 3 what caan buffalo in the woods faint I 1 seen cm em lumbering lym bering over the prairie more than once and vou I 1 ant take to the pines for timber I 1 s ou like ilke to know well as I 1 was saying tiiu tHer eFe ewas ivas a hoap of cats in them forests an and ana ay besides beside yule yUie e chippeway Chipp ewas used to sena tasir gir tir war parties in there for you must know this was debatable ground and manyra many rf reu injun have I 1 toil foti found hid bid fid in the brush stuck as full of arrows as there is quills in a porky pine pinc 11 lumbering aln ain aint nothing now to what it wa s man mad en then we vve had to carry our rifles rady ready I 1 cocked in oun our left hand and chop with the right some of them trees a couple of days to get through tha the bark and some of yem em had bad hollows in yern em bim bi enough for a team to one of this kand fell across the diw mim inilla one day jot jut as ow agot his log onto thealin the sid bid and was ready to startup start seart up so what whai does boeshe he do but drive right through it and no rubbing hair it was about that samo lo 10 log 0 that I 1 ris going to speak your h was jast just rl rightly liti r heined seined scared sta ab 0 ii i time i the next year after log 0 was wag felle filled d lehoven and I 1 ventu ehver e ri var vur tarr bj ber bunting hunting and of course we edthe old dani iani camping th eway but mip instead of going up to the shanty we just took lodd lodgings for the night in the big stick as being more handy to the stream which saved us its a two mile tramp it was waa nigh on to nightfall and owen was waa stirring the coals around the teapot to get it a all at once he heard a whimpering in the timber hard by one minute it seemed to be talking low the next chuckling and the next crying and such a mixing u up of queer noises you never heard in jg juns uni uns I 1 says owen quite scared cats says imore positive thatis cats or im a cats or iejung says owen now gather ing pluck and taking his nut got im tin jest going to find out 1 but hardly had he gone three steps from the fire when with such a screech as you never heard down came a bi big catamount out of the tree plum plump onto on to his back owen gave one i awful belf belf and hardly knowing what I 1 was about I 1 grabbed the pot of boiling tea and chucked it plump into the va varmints var mints eyes ana and face well you never see a cat more confused in all your born days after that she he was regularly obfuscated was that thab cat and the way the har liar commenced to slake off from his was a caution leaving E owen lay she began pitching and jumping t this is way and that butting 0 her head bead against the trees and tearing about promiscuously and it was easy enough to see she was blinded only when shed hear me dodging about she come far amiss and finally just as I 1 was vas near to the end of the log she put her claw baw right into the seat of my corduroys and a little farther but I 1 slipped my cable as the sailors say got her down and had just got her legs tied for I 1 made up my mind to keep the aarm varmint int alive when all at once came a earsplitting yell and looking up I 1 saw six chippewa reds red s kins skins streaked streaking it through P h the timber Atthe at the same bame time poor owin sings out In juns 1 and managed aged to crawl into the jog lo 10 just f st t rime lime ime e enough bough nough to dodge a couple of bullets buila s t that p t c ame came flying after h in m it was plain the rascals noticed me and catching an idea all at once I 1 backed into the log dragging the cat by the hind legs and waited for what was coming directly after a little palaver one of the took a stand so as to cover the theand end of the log where owen lay a and nd the other five ran around to the other end to drive owen out ilist hist owena says 1 I keep your eye on your hind sights and dont stir then taking a bunch of dry grass I 1 tied it to the cats tail tall set her face strai straight ht for the opening held a match in my ilant hand and the minute I 1 see them five heads fore nent the lo 10 logi 1 l just cut the strings that tied the cats feet touched her off with the match and away she streaked it jt that log like a shooting star plump into them down went one of yem em into mincemeat and the others they was just a beetle surprised I 1 reckon perhaps they male make themselves scarce as soon as they come tol but two of 0 em dro dropped aped w with I 1 th a chink chunk of cold lead in yem lem em before for they got into the brush we aernt af eared of seeing any of that party again and we the next morning we went up the river with our face done up in a poultice having thus thug delivered himself the old lumberman b began ll 11 an leisurely fill filling ilig his pipe Is that thab a caan well it is but what became of the cat As to that I 1 exactly say but the fire got into the timber and burned over a thousand acre and theres been no seen in them wood since 32 more afore than one of the auditors are ignorant of the esequal of the captains yarn for heads are nodding 0 here and there come boy boys lets sIets turn in now a fresh log is thrown upon the fi rethe simple bed and coverings are hastily adjusted and nd soon the tired lum lumbermen germen termen are wrapped in external obliviousness methodically bestowed beneath one ion lon long iong T blanket that covers all like a layer of 0 herr herrings ings packed for shipment and sonorous snores respond to snores responsive naught disturbs their hea heavy heay y slumbers throughout the livelong night unless per j chance a startling cry cr of fire and insidious flames 0 t IL rough the dry hemlock shives and leaphie among the ratter and andi heat and locating suffocating smoke wake them with sudden alarm th then en it is a struggle for life and often escape ia is found only through the roof burst from its fastening fastenings 11 9 and sometimes not at all there are sad records of ble deaths from burning bulpin camps campa among the forest foiest fort foit ar chieves ye yet t such tb calamities are a re rare |