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Show j RIVERMAN IN REAL ACT.t j Journey Down Stream on a L03 li- , pie Exercise to Him, , First and foremost, )oiir rlverinan can ride a log. This does not raiM 1 merely that lie Is nblo to stand npils'it or to jump frnm one to another wlt'i out splashing In thotiah own Ihht Is no mean feat, as .1 lilal vlll lunvln.-e oti. That Is the klnderguileu df It. The sawlog In the water Is not only his object of labor, but his means of transportation. Your true rlverinan on drive almost never steps on land except to eat and slei'p. A Journey downstream Is to him an affair of great simplicity. He pushes Into the current a stick of timber, jumps lightly light-ly atop It, leans against his peavy and floats away as graceful as a Grecian statue. When his unstable craft overtakes over-takes other logs ho deserts it, runs forward, as far as he can the logs bobblng'awash behind his sprlng-r-and so continues on another timber. Jack Boyd once for a bet rode for 12 miles down Qrand river on a log he could carry to the stream's bank across his shoulders. Fully halt the time his feet were submerged to the ankles. Nor does quick water always cause jour expert rlverman to disembark. Using his peavy as a balancing pole and treading wlfh squlrrel-ltke quickness aa his footing rolls, he will run raplda of considerable force and volume. When the tall of a drive passes through the chute of a dam there aVe always half a dozen or so of tho "vir" men who, put of shoer bravado, will run through standing upright like circus cir-cus riders nnd jelllns like tlendi Outing Magazine. i |