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Updated: June 3, 2025
Pinkey took a triangular piece of glass from between the logs in the bunk-house and regarded himself steadfastly in the bit of broken mirror. He murmured finally: "I ain't no prize baby, but if I jest had a classy set of teeth I wouldn't be bad lookin'." He replaced the mirror in the crack and sauntered down to the cook-shack where he seated himself on the door-sill.
"Niver wuz such a crew in th' woods, miss," boasted Daddy Dunnigan one afternoon as Ethel stood in the door of the cook-shack and watched the old man's preparation of the gigantic supper. "Oi've logged a bit, here an' there, an' always Oi've be'n where min wuz but niver Oi've seed 'em buckle down an' tear out th' bone, wan day wid another, save in th' so'gerin' days av Captain Fronte McKim.
A few minutes later Appleton stamped into the cook-shack. "Did you find him, Daddy?" he asked. The old man shook his head. "He ain't in th' camp," he muttered. "He tuk Jack's gun whilst he slep' an' ut's huntin' he's gone Lard hilp um!" "Where is Bill?" the lumberman inquired. "Av ye're quick, ye may catch um in th' office av ye ain't Oi'm thinkin' ye niver will foind um.
"When the ladies have selected their room I will have your gear moved into the other," said Bill; and, with a bow to the ladies, moved off in the direction of the cook-shack.
Two were at once arranged as bunk-houses and the third as cook-shack. When this had been done, with two men on guard, they turned in and slept. Next morning, at six o'clock, four hours before daylight, every man was called out and assigned duties. It was the custom of the natives to depart for the hunting-ground at that hour. They should follow the same custom.
The men of the shift formed a long line reaching from the sled to the river, and the water dipped from the hole cut in the ice was passed from man to man in buckets to be dumped into the barrels and distributed between the stables, cook-shack, bunk-house, and "house."
The feel of snow was in the air and over by the cook-shack men were hauling fire-wood on a pole-drag. The team brought up sharply before the door of the office which was located at one end of a long, low building of logs, the two other rooms of which contained stoves, chairs, and a few rough deal-tables.
Jacques will go to the cook-shack," she added, turning to the half-breed, "and when the broth is ready bring it to me." The men obeyed without question, and as the office door closed behind them the girl dropped to her knees beside the bunk and, throwing her arms about the man's neck, pressed her soft cheek close against his bearded face.
Usually they did not use the cook-shack much ... it was used while on the road from one wheat farm to another.
At the words a half-dozen men rushed toward the cook-shack, returning a few minutes later laden as to victual a regiment. Again the interest centered upon the two big men who faced each other on the trodden ground of the clearing. Other men came the ones who had fled from the rollway, their curiosity conquering their fear at the sight of the dead man.
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