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. A*. promised with the last lum-*fcring article wo are. giving today eatracts from thy Paul Buayac Legends,, by M1ss K. Bernice Siew-l*H of the University of Wisconsin.. Wg havo also.. been able..to„. seeure from Miss Sit;wart her picture forcut. •'... ./Utes Stewart is no novice in matter* pertaining to logging canty life. Her father was a timber cruiser in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan end as a young girl she herself . Spent .Severn i winters iu cam p. Becoming Interested iu the yarns which the typical old time woodsmen were accustomed to relate for the beaciit -troy trnderf^t-~v^*^awlt;nt-lw~pr.c--awnf, 51jss~'3tcw:rrt—ha's—ftn—somc-years ]Klt;jt been making n careful study of the subject As noted before it was. only a few inontint, ago that she made a trip to Eau €iairc . and vicinity in search of material along fhe same libe.As evidence of the interest that has been awakened in these loggingcamp yarns we' may add that-Miss *5tewart has recently been requested ..to deliver another address before the ‘Wisconsin Academy of Science. Arts and Eetlers on logging camplore. _______MISS K, BEKMCE STEWAHTIn connection with the Hodag picture we might add that when a greenhorn arrived in camp he was likely to be told by the old woodsmen of a' fearful animal, called the ‘'Ho^agt,, and sometimes ‘ the newcomer would be so impressed that he would nof dare to venture away from camp alone ‘ A few years rgo ah old timer told the writer that at one time-he ami several other woodsmen hired a half breed Indian to *o' out in the woods at ni*htr*VtiT*’Wi: i
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Apr 15, 1917
Page 15
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