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Updated: June 17, 2025

Lumbermen, foes to idleness and inutility, swarm again about their winter's trophies. They imprint certain cabalistic tokens of ownership on the logs, crosses, xs, stars, crescents, alphabetical letters, marks respected all along the rivers and lakes down to the boom where the sticks are garnered for market. The marked logs are tumbled into the brimming stream, and so ends their forest-life.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862