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I read a few years ago in one of Canada's leading daily papers and no doubt the same account was copied throughout the United States a thrilling story of two lumber-jacks in the wilds of Northern Ontario being pursued by a pack of timber-wolves, and the exhausted woodsmen barely escaping with their lives, being forced by the ferocious brutes to spend a whole night in a tree at a time when the thermometer registered below zero.
Lumber-jacks, with Tom and Hippy, had plunged into the shallow stream the instant that Grace cried out, and were running towards Willy, now standing calmly awaiting them. "Did you kill him?" shouted Hippy. "No kill. Mebby kill bymeby," answered Willy Horse briefly as Tom and Hippy came puffing up to him. "You have done enough.
With a roar of anger Bill seized a heavy split log bench, sending a couple of lumber-jacks tumbling among the feet of their fellows, and whirling it high above his head, drove it crashing through the door.
"I have as much right here as he has, and the law must protect me. It can't be that this country is entirely barbaric." Nevertheless, he felt very weak and very much depressed as he rode up the street of the little town and dismounted at the hotel. The sidewalks were littered with loafing cowboys and lumber-jacks, and some of them quite openly ridiculed his riding-breeches and his thin legs.
"Thought it was some of them lumber-jacks, and I was going to fire 'em below. Fine night." "It is that," answered Thorpe, again the cold, unresponsive man of reticence. "When do you expect to get in, Captain?" "About to-morrow noon," replied the captain, moving away. Thorpe followed him a short distance, discussing the landing.
Sounds like a bunch of lumber-jacks with the circus slow in starting." The head-line feature of the Onamwaska County spring fair was "Hawk Ericson, showing the most marvelous aerial feats of the ages with the scientific marvels of aviation, in his famous French Blériot flying-machine, the first flying-machine ever seen in this state, no balloon or fake, come to Onamwaska by the St.
I do not suppose Dick believed all this although it was strictly and literally true but his imagination was impressed. He gazed with respect on the group at the far end of the street, where fifteen or twenty lumber-jacks were interested in some amusement concealed from us. "What do you suppose they are doing?" murmured Dick, awestricken. "Wrestling, or boxing, or gambling, or jumping," said I.
Thus did the lonely girl in a far distant city unconsciously win a silent victory for the man she loved and who loved her. Very early in the morning on the day of the storm which had been welcomed by the lumber-jacks of the Blood River camp, old Wabishke started over his trap-line.
"Why, he's more power for peace with the lumber-jacks of Quebec than if he was their trade leader," he said, setting his empty glass down on the table. "We employers owe him there's never any sort of trouble with the boys." "I see." Mr. Cantor gazed out across the nearly empty room, and a shadowy smile haunted his eyes. "And if there was trouble? Could you locate him in time?"
It's not that. You know Arden Laval," he went on, his brows depressing. "Of course you do. You must know him a whole heap better than I do. Well? Say, I guess that feller hasn't a right to walk this earth. He boasts the boys he's smashed the life clean out of. He's killed more fool lumber-jacks than you could count on the fingers of two hands. He wanted my scalp to hang on his belt.
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