Eureka Reporter | 1905-10-13 | Page 3 | Dialect of the Lumberjacks

DIALECT OF THE lumberjacks LUMBER JACKS have a breezy slang of their own in the piny woods the breezy slang of the pine forests of northern minnesota pervaded the ward in st mary s hospital when a lumberjack a top loader painfully ex to one of the how it happened that he had broken a leg after the arpi en bones had been set and the patient was made as comfort able as possible one of the sisters approached and asked him how ho had met with the accident the big woodsman was ready to tell but the sister left the cof with a puzzled look on her face and to this day does not know just what bap bened to the man this was the way he explained it to her you see sister I 1 am a sky hooker well we were shy a grounder that morning when a blew up the tote road from somewhere and the push hired him he representing that impersonating a grounder was his long suit well the u thing he senta up to me was a blue butt I 1 yelled at him to throw me a saginaw but n stead of that he gave her a clyder and gunder and she came up and broke my stem I 1 I 1 dont quite understand began the mystified sister neither do I 1 exclaimed the woodsman eagerly he must have been bughouse or du luth news tribune