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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Well, I worked here until I saw them take off the cars a lot of those knots just like the ones I'd seen on the trees up in that swamp. 'What are them things? says I to the foreman. "'Burls, says he. "'Worth anything? says I. "'Are they? says he. 'They're the most expensive pieces of wood you can find anywhere in this country. Them's what we saw up into veneers. "That was enough for me.
By that radiant glow she saw that she was in the midst of trees! Some were tall and slender and clean-barked; others were low and thick of trunk, but with the wide shapely spread of the great banyan in her geography; and, towering above the others, were the giants of that forest, unevenly branched, misshapen, aslant, and rugged with wart-like burls.
Well, one day I got after a deer, and he led me off so far I couldn't find my way back to camp. I walked through the woods for more'n a week before I came out on the lake shore. It was while I was tramping around that I got into a hardwood swamp where I saw them burls, not knowing what they were at the time. "When I showed up at home my stepfather was tearing mad.
"Ye slaves of bloody tyranny ye murderous, treacherous villains shame and disgrace upon you all! Before Allah's throne will I accuse you, ye treacherous, slavish Turks." With cries of rage they throw themselves upon him to strangle him. But an arm burls them back with a giant's strength. "Do you wish to murder those who can no longer defend themselves? Back!
Also he had eyes of the color of ripe gooseberries. "You see," said Lafe, in explaining the matter afterward, "I was hunting for burls. I had seen 'em first when I was about sixteen. It was once when a lot of us went up on the steamer from Saginaw after black bass. We landed somewhere and went up a river into Mullet Lake.
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