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Jurgis had often wondered just who ate the canned corned beef and "roast beef" of the stockyards; now he began to understand that it was what you might call "graft meat," put up to be sold to public officials and contractors, and eaten by soldiers and sailors, prisoners and inmates of institutions, "shantymen" and gangs of railroad laborers.
Like the bursting of a hurricane the pintos leap forward, and with a splendid rush cross the scratch, winners by their own length. There was a wild quarter of an hour. The shantymen had torn off their coats and were waving them wildly and tossing them high, while the ranchers added to the uproar by emptying their revolvers into the air in a way that made one nervous.
The shantymen were divided into two parties, one section taking the teams and camp-belongings back to the depot, the other and much larger section following the logs in their journey to the mills. Johnston put himself at the head of the latter, and Frank, of course, accompanied him, for the foreman was no less anxious to have him than the boy was to go.
And looking at his strong, composed, grave face, she felt that that place ought not to be an unworthy one. The shantymen came back home to find the revival still going on. Not a home but had felt its mighty power, and not a man, woman, or even child but had come more or less under its influence.
And before me would appear the red-shirted shantymen or dark-faced miners, great, free, bold fellows, driving me almost mad with the desire to seize and fix those swiftly changing groups of picturesque figures. At such times I would drop my sketch, and with eager brush seize a group, a face, a figure, and that is how my studio comes to be filled with the men of Black Rock.
"I suppose I'm what the Bible calls a hewer of wood and a drawer of water," he would say to himself; for hardly less onerous than the task of keeping the fire in fuel was that of keeping well filled the two water-barrels that stood on either side of the door one for the thirsty shantymen, the other for Baptiste's culinary needs.
I wondered at Craig, and said, rather angrily 'He thinks only of those wretched miners and shantymen of his. She looked at me with wonder in her eyes, and said gently, 'And are they not Christ's too? And I found no word to reply. It was nearing ten o'clock, and I was wondering how the fight was going, and hoping that Mrs.
Any one watching a 'log drive' to-day can see the shantymen afloat in much the same way, though for a very different purpose, as their remotest human ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago. The raft, like the log, is now a self-carrying cargo, not a passenger craft. But there it is, much as it always was.
As they were nearing the river, they saw coming along the narrow sidewalk a burly French-Canadian, dressed in the gayest holiday garb of the shantymen. red shirt and sash, corduroys tucked into red top-boots, a little round soft hat set upon the back of his black curls, a gorgeous silk handkerchief around his neck, and a big gold watch-chain with seals at his belt.
'Bon; dat's fuss rate, said Baptiste heartily; 'where you keep him? 'Up in the tent next the church there. The miners are all in. 'Ah, dat so? Dat's bad news for the shantymen, heh, Sandy? said the little Frenchman dolefully. 'There was a clothes-basket full of doughnuts and a boiler of coffee left as I passed just now, said Craig encouragingly.
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