. The lure of the land . up a meal. You have talked enough about being goodaxmen, you ought to know how to live out of doors. So the Pahson was made chef. Next day a sumptuous meal wasin readiness at noon, in fact a trifle before, soup, meat-stew, succotash,pie and cake. The usual result of a hearty midday meal was soonvisible, each man wanted to lie down and go to sleep. Then and there we held a conference. The Islanders must be re-placed by the manual mainstay of civilization; the sons of Sunny Italymust be secured. In the mean time it was decided to remove the stumpsby dynamite, as trying t
. The lure of the land . up a meal. You have talked enough about being goodaxmen, you ought to know how to live out of doors. So the Pahson was made chef. Next day a sumptuous meal wasin readiness at noon, in fact a trifle before, soup, meat-stew, succotash,pie and cake. The usual result of a hearty midday meal was soonvisible, each man wanted to lie down and go to sleep. Then and there we held a conference. The Islanders must be re-placed by the manual mainstay of civilization; the sons of Sunny Italymust be secured. In the mean time it was decided to remove the stumpsby dynamite, as trying to yank them out by pullers or by mattock andplow was both slow and brutal; as for the ordinary custom of allowingnature to work six years at the stumps and gradually eliminate themin part by decay was not worthy of consideration. Dynamiter Kissam of Huntington was engaged to do the is a man of calm and serene temperament, steady and careful atwork, and to be fully trusted. With the approach of his coming, the. Manual mainstays of civilization *up sleeve scheme appeared. The editors of all the big New York andBrooklyn daily papers and many editors of the prominent magazineswere to be invited to the spot to see the first stump blown out. A good dozen of them made the trip on September 6 and Dyna-miter Kissam greeted them with a salute. The first stump was blown,shattered to bits and the ground pulverized, leaving a hole thirtyinches deep and, marvelous to relate, every bit of it beautiful richbrown soil with no sign of sand or gravel. The six-inch theory wentup with the stump. It was an interested and interesting party of men. Some of themdecided to travel as far northward as they could go, others retreatedin utter confusion, while some remained the safe 200 feet from theexplosion. The universal verdict, however, was that they would not under-take the task of making that wilderness into a market garden for anymoney, and we certainly had picked out the worst piece of la
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