bucksaws

Updated: June 11, 2025

We are all now seated at the supper table, ten in all, and all railroad men except myself, with the dignified paymaster at the head of the table and his check clerk, Olmsby, at the foot, who assumed the duty of saying grace by making motions around his chest and head, accompanied with these words, "Bucksaws filed and set." This created some amusement and was the only time it occurred.

L. H. (Lell Hawley) Woolley - California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state