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Updated: May 25, 2025
He turned into the trail upon which Jean de Gravois had fought the Englishman, led his dogs and sledge in a twisting path through the caribou swamp, and stood at last beside the lob-stick tree that leaned out over the edge of the white barrens. With his knife he dug out the papers which he had concealed in that whisky-jack hole.
But no country is God's Country without a woman," and then he took Philip to the lonely grave under a huge lob-stick spruce, and told him in a few words how one woman had made life for him. Even then Philip could not fully understand. But he did now. He resumed his paddling, his gray eyes alert.
We believe it may make their hearts stronger, or make them more disposed to do good or brave things themselves. It is our custom." "But what have we done to deserve this?" demanded Rob. "Moise and I and those other men who were here have the right to decide in regard to that," said Alex. "We would not be foolish enough to leave a 'lob-stick' for any light reason.
We think there is no other 'lob-stick' on the river above here, and that there is not apt to be." By this time Moise had lopped off all the branches of the tree except the top ones, which stood out like an umbrella. Descending from stub to stub, he now trimmed off all the remaining branches clear to the ground.
On the trunk they then inscribe the name of the stranger, and he is supposed to give each of the men a plug of tobacco and a drink of whiskey. Thus they celebrate the man and his monument, and ever afterwards it is pointed out as "So-and-so's lob-stick." It was two months before my men judged that I was entitled to a lob-stick.
First are the Squaw Rapids, where the Indian women used to wait while the men went on down-stream with the furs. Next are the Cold Rapids, and boats are barely into calm water out of these when a roar gives warning of more to come, and a tall tree stripped of all branches but a tufted crest on top known among Indians as a 'lob-stick, marks two more rippling rapids.
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