| Show AT BOOTJACK CAMP hill bill nye je unfolds ills store of sad experience in iho the lumber It egions denver opinion 1 I 1 put up tip at bootjack camp on oil the fi ging willow olivcr where the A ay plumaged chipmunk and the spruce gum have their home winter in the pina pine woods ia is fraught with fun and frolic it is more fraught with fun and ind frolic it is more fraught with fatigue than funds however this winter a roan man in the michigan Iichi gan and wisconsin lumber camps could arise at 41 4 a m eat cat a patent paile u I 1 of dried apples soaked with young hyson sweetened and with persian glucose go out if t the timber with a lantern hew dubu the bauls ot the lorei joret with the snow up to the pit of his hi stomach till the gray owl in the gathering gloom glom whooped and hooted in derision and fand all for 12 per month and stewed prunes I 1 did not try to accumulate weal wealth th while I 1 wai in camp I 1 just allowed others to enter into the rush rash and wrench a fortune from tho the liand hand of of fate while I 1 studied human nature and the cook I 1 had a good ciany ill 1 ily pleasant days lays there too I 1 read such literary works as I 1 could find abou arou ud the camp and smoked the royal havana smoking tobacco ot oi the cookie those who have not lumbered much do not know much of true joy and sylvan shoki smoking bg tobacco they are not using a very good grade odthe of the weed ia in the lumber regions this wi winter lliter when I 1 say lumber regions regious I 1 do not refer entirely to the tile circumstances of a weak back monkey wrench oil can and screw driver sent cent with this joke also aho rules for working it in all kinds ol 01 goods the tobacco used by the pine choppers of the northern forest foreit is called the ascani dilloo I 1 du do not know kilow why by they call it that unless it is is because you can smoke it in wisconsin and smell it in when night dight came wo would gather around the blazing fire and talk over old times and smoke thia this tobacco I 1 smoked it till last week then I 1 bought a new mouth and resolved to lead a diff different lerent life I 1 behall neter never forget the evenings we 5 spent t together in that log aback shack in the teen e heart of the forest they are ar a graven on my memory where times effacing fingers finers cannot monkey with them we would most always converse the crew talked the norwegian language and I 1 am using the english language mo mostly aly this winter so each enjoyed himself in his own quiet way this seemed to throw the norwegians Norwegia ns a good deal together it also threw roc rue a good deal together the scandinavians soon learn our ways and our language but prior to that they are quite clannish the cook however was an all ohio man nian he spoke the sandusky dialect with a rich nut brown flavor that did me ine much good so that after I 1 had bad talked with the crew a few hours in english and received their harsh corduroy replies in norske I 1 gladly fled to tho the cook shanty there I 1 could rapidly change to the smoothly flowing sentences peculiar to the ohio tongue and while I 1 ate the tile common maii twisted doughnut of commerce wo we would talk on and on of the pleasant daye days wo had spent in our own native land I 1 talked to him of his old homo home till the teara tears would unbidden start as he lie rolled out the dough with a common budweiser beer I 1 veer bottle and aud shed the scalding lean tears into the flour barrel tears arc are always unavailing but sometimes I 1 think they arc are mo more to so when they are shed into a barrel of f flour he lie was an easy weeper ho he would shed tears on the eligh slightest tt provocation ro vocation or anything gny thing else once I 1 told him something so that his eyes were blinded with tears for the nonce then I 1 took a pie and stole away so that he be could be alone with his sorrow he used to grind the C e at 2 a m the coffee collie mill wag was nailed up UD against a partition ion on the opposite 8 side ide from my bed that is one reason I 1 did not stay any longer at the camp it takes take e allbia an rn hour to grind coffee eti enough for thirty meu men w and adas as my ear was generally ay iy against the pine boards when the cook began it ruffled my slumbers slum bers and made me a morose man loan we had three men in the camp who snored if they snored iu my own language I 1 could have endured endure d it but it was entirely unintelligible a as it was wa still it bad either they snored in di different Terent keys and still there was harmony harmo n yin in it a kind of chime of iw imported ported anre M it were I 1 used to lie and listen liste to it for hours then the cook would begin his coffee mill overture and I 1 would arise when I 1 got home borne I 1 slept from monday rooming morning until tons birthday without food or water |
