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Updated: May 8, 2025
"I'll say anything I feel like sayin'! Some folks can't understand English; some folks have got lignumvity heads and you have to tell 'em " "You couldn't tell me anything!" "Sure! That's just the trouble with you NOBODY can tell you anything!" "I whip-sawed before you was born!" Astonishment momentarily robbed Mr. Quirk of speech, then he broke out more indignantly than ever.
The interior was like that of the other log cabins they had seen a rough puncheon floor for the single room, a fireplace as big as a barn door, built of rough stones, with a hearth of undressed flat stones, upon which sat a few clumsy cooking utensils of heavy cast-iron, three-legged stools for chairs, a table of rough whip-sawed boards held together by wooden pins.
The walls of the house were of moss-chinked logs that deadened every sound, but the door itself was of thin, whip-sawed pine boards with ample cracks at top and bottom, and, the room being of small dimensions, they heard plainly. The Lieutenant leaned forward, then with difficulty smothered an exclamation, for he heard another voice now the voice of John Gale.
The water-front swarms with craft, scows and canoes, birch, canvas, peterboro; the great bateaux of the northern lumberman, neat little skiffs, clumsy rafts; heavy "double-enders," whip-sawed from green timber, with capacity of two to five tons; lighters and barges carrying as much as forty tons all having come through the perils of the upper lakes and shot the canon rapids.
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