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The other eight months we shall be using our forest reserves, and each year there will be less forest land to produce new growth, as well as less old wood to cut. Mr. R. A. Long, an expert lumberman who spoke before the first Conservation Congress, estimated then that the forests, making allowance for growth, would not last over thirty-five years.
And now I have come to ask again for your daughter's hand." "You a wastrel...!" The old man's voice trembled with anger. "I have been. But let us talk calmly, if you please." "Lumberman!" The word was flung out with a bitterness and contempt that cut like a knife. A dark flush rose to Olof's cheek; he was hard put to it already to control himself. "True," he said, slowly and with emphasis.
Get just that into your thick, old head, Bat, and for our last five minutes together we can talk of things more pleasant than Hellbeam." The missionary smiled down into the strong face of his companion. And the lumberman realised the uselessness of further protest. He yielded grudgingly. He yielded because he knew and loved the man. By a great effort he turned his mind from the dread haunting it.
No; we had never done that since leaving our Indiana home. But what was the use of stopping here? We wanted a place to make a farm, and we could not do it on such forbidding land as this. The dense forest stretching out before us was interesting enough to the lumberman, and for aught I knew there were channels for the ships; but I wanted to be neither lumberman nor sailor.
And, taking turns, between bites, as it were, when they were eating supper, Russ and Laddie told of having met Mr. Hurd, who had spoken of the red-haired lumberman working at Mr. Barker's place. "So we went there, and Zip chased his cat," explained Russ. "And we upset, but he was nice and he showed us the ragged coat, only the pockets were full of holes and there weren't any papers."
Full of the awful interest of the scene, I surely thought the captain would lower a boat to bury the bodies, and find out something about the schooner. But we did not stop at all; passing on our course, without so much as learning the schooner's name, though every one supposed her to be a New Brunswick lumberman.
Only by the aid of the woodmen can the watermen build their engines of victory. The seamen in return purvey the needful luxuries for lumber-camps. Foresters float down timber that seamen may build snips and go to the saccharine islands of the South for molasses: for without molasses no lumberman could be happy in the unsweetened wilderness.
"And were you ever a tramp?" Russ asked. "Well, yes, you could call me that," admitted the red-haired man, speaking slowly. "I'm a sort of tramp lumberman. I never like to stay long in one place, and so I'm roving all over. You could call me a tramp." "That's good," said Russ. "Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't," said Mr. Gannon.
Sadie Todd's cousin, who had been born in England, was shipped out on this first train, and also a Finnish lumberman whom Peter had known in the I. W. W., and a Bohemian cigar worker at whose home he had several times eaten, and finally Michael Dubin, the Jewish boy with whom he had spent fifteen days in jail, and who had been one of the victims of the black-snake whippings.
McFarlane comes from an old Kentucky family, father. Her grandfather helped to found a college down there." Wayland's anxious desire to create a favorable impression of the women did not escape the lumberman, but his face remained quite expressionless as he replied: "If the life of a cow-hand would give you the vigor this young lady appears to possess, I'm not sure but you'd better stick to it."
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