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All of which means, bar the doors of this recreation room parliament, and you'll start up a hundred such parliaments, and worse, throughout your enterprise here on Labrador, and you'll finish by wrecking the whole blessed concern." If Bull looked for yielding he was disappointed. But he appreciated the twinkle that had crept into the lumberman's stern eyes.
An' these things mean our costs leave us cutting right under other folks, and Skandinavia beat. There it is," he cried, with a wide gesture of his knotted hands. "It's pie!" Something of the lumberman's enthusiasm found reflection in Sternford's eyes. "But Nature's handed us a lemon in the basket of oranges," Bat went on, with a shake of his head. "It's that woman in her again.
There were always plenty of deer down in the cedar swamp, and their tracks were as plain as a lumberman's logging road. But although the lynxes sometimes killed and ate young fawns in the summertime, they seldom tasted venison in the winter.
Falls and rapids are of frequent occurrence, and it is these which add difficulty and danger to the lumberman's work.
With generous hand the boy shared his early meal, and made a familiar noise that further won the little animal's confidence. Billy had his plans well laid. There was a lumberman's hut a day's walk from the camp; he must make that by night. There would be a rough bed and chopped wood; he could sleep and rest and then, if all went well, he ought to make St.
But we got through without any serious mishap, passing Mosquito Creek and Mosquito Pond, and flanking Mosquito Mountain, but seeing no mosquitoes, and brought up at dusk at a lumberman's old hay-barn, standing in the midst of a lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. Here we passed the night, and were lucky in having a good roof over our heads, for it rained heavily.
The neighbourhood had passed so rapidly from country estate to homes and from homes to rented lodgings and huge brick warehouses that the marks of the lumberman's axe still showed in the butts of the logs. McGregor seldom saw the little court except when its ugliness was refined and glossed over by darkness or by the moonlight.
For these were Sisters, and the young man lay in the Hospital of St. Mary. Time was when the lumber-jack who had the misfortune to fall sick or to meet with an accident was in a sorry plight indeed. If he possessed a "stake," he would receive some sort of unskilled attention in one of the numerous and fearful lumberman's boarding-houses, just so long as his money lasted, not one instant more.
And there's a bank there called the Lumberman's Fidelity and Plowman's Savings Institution. It closed for business yesterday with $23,000 cash on hand. It will open this morning with $18,000 all silver that's the reason I didn't bring more. There you are, trade and capital. Now, will you be bad? "'My young friend, says Alfred E. Ricks, holding up his hands, 'have you robbed this bank?
What was there about an old lumberman's coat to bring a look of bewildered wonder into the Poor Boy's eyes? And what particular memories did he associate with the last time of wearing it? He closed his eyes, frowned, thought, remembered. "I wore this," he said to himself, "the time I went down to the sea, and nearly died getting back. Then it was mislaid, when I wanted to wear it again.
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