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SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1917._ • i . . - lt;• »' ifEAU CLAIRE.EAUCLAK6 SUNDAY-Round River 90 we learned that day* On Section 37 1ay.-''. ' .....When once started on logging ■camp Varna it is hard to stop, as the supply js well nigh inexhaustible. Possibly later on some nrfre ; may be furnished, but we will dose \ this article with a few brie? stories., of the humorous orlt;|er. We hops soon to, furnish some more, reminlapcenees' from old woodsmen on the-more practical side of logging camplife..... ^ young—man’^n~'thir dt3T~whb-haa recently been acting as camp clerk up In' Northern Minnesota, has; brought 'back a few Paul Banyan. yarns which we have1' not seen In print. One of these relates to “David R. Gee, a cousin- of Paul Banyan/' 'who was running a drive on the Niagara river, and wentr oyer the Palls on a log. Of course, such an expertehoeS driver as he had no trouble in sticking to his log, but unfortunately he got into the wbfrl--P-QO-L-h^1ow ana for elgh,t days hecircled around in that raging flood with nothing to eat but doughnuts. wJrteh Were thrown to him from shore and which he caught on hispeTcy.A bit of logging camp exaggeration came-under the observation or the writer a few years ago up in one of - the -Raiser Lumber company’s camps, on Bass Lake. If wan just past New Year's: the iced roads were built up into,, ffcir shape and some very respectable sized load? were being hauled-1 A remark tothis effect was made by one of the woodsmen, when another spoktf-up and said, “Yes, but they are no such loads as old Jake used to haul. We had to shoot his dinner up to him with a shot gun.”At another time, while visiting a camp in that same vicinity, the writer strayed Into the teamster1* shanty just as one of its occupants was expressing himself quite forcibly in regard to the loss of a piece of his harness, whereupon a fellow teamster offered this se;ge advice: “Till the boas you laid it on a shtump. and somebody sbtole it.Above all things nlver till thetruth.*’Only last winter the writer visited jyset of fine, large, new camp build---Inga..belonging—to--the Rice --Lake Lnm-ber company: The usual ar-rrcitgcment for -stepping bunks is lengthwise the outside walls, the men climbing into them over the .wide of the bunk. In one 6f these sleeping shanties the writer noticed that the bunks were built end the wall, the men getting into themby climbing in over the footboard.Later, in the camp office, the writerremarked to the foreman that thiswas a new arrangement of bunks tohim. “Yes,” said he, “those arewhat we call 'muzzle loaders.1 ’’ Itwould be hard to find 4 more expressive or humorous appellation, than this.Should be serviceable and beautiful, in keeping with the occasion. Graduation js one of the big things in the rtlife-of everrboy^or girl—Make-it one of pleasant memories by a gift that is appropriate.We have many such things.M3 BF.YYAN’S BRTTE ON THE ROUND R!VER IS VERSE, BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH,At last, a hundred mUUon In,'Twas time- for drivin’ to begin.We broke our roll ways in a rush And started through the rain andslushTo drive the hundred million down Until we reached some sawmill town We didn’t know the river's name, Now where to someone's mill it . came. . •We had two coons for -flunk e3's, Sam And Tom. Joe uised to strap a ham Upon each foot of each of them When we had pancakes each A M. They’d skate around the stove lidsforAn hour or so. or maybe more,And grease ‘em for him. But'one day Old Pink-eye Martin (anywayCONSULTATIONWell, after we had driven for At least two weeks, and maybe more We come upon a pyramid That looked just like* our forty did.for Forty Years
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sun, May 20, 1917
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