. The dramatic method of teaching. isings of therivers which occurred very quickly in the springtime, owingto the sudden thawing of the snow and ice. The ice wassupposed to break up, and the men would pretend to pushthe logs into the water. This was great fun, for one boybrought some long pieces of chains, and we pretended tothrow the logs into the stream and form rafts. Then theboys gave us a realistic bit of acting, jumping on therafts and guiding them along by pushing the river bank(floor!) with poles. They really did manage to slide theirlogs along, much to the joy of the enthusiastic onlo
. The dramatic method of teaching. isings of therivers which occurred very quickly in the springtime, owingto the sudden thawing of the snow and ice. The ice wassupposed to break up, and the men would pretend to pushthe logs into the water. This was great fun, for one boybrought some long pieces of chains, and we pretended tothrow the logs into the stream and form rafts. Then theboys gave us a realistic bit of acting, jumping on therafts and guiding them along by pushing the river bank(floor!) with poles. They really did manage to slide theirlogs along, much to the joy of the enthusiastic amid tense excitement they made their logs jam,and the men pretended to break the ice. Some of theirnumber were injured at this point and had to receive first aid from their companions. They would bring outin their dialogue the names of the rivers, as they floateddown them, and of the ports to which they would presentlycome. The logs would be sawed into deals and shipped,the boys who. were lumbermen quickly becoming men. 55 GEOGRAPHY 157 working the steam saws at Ottawa. While the men werechopping down the trees, in the winter scene, traderswould come and bargain for the wood. The talk wouldtake place in the shanty, rigged up with easels, black-boards, and benches. Then other boys dressed as Indianswould steal in and listen outside the shanty. They wouldoffer skins to the lumbermen and exchange them for corn,tobacco, beads, and whisky. Some of the rougher lumber-men would pretend to lie in wait for a trader to rob andkill him ; after a scuffle he would escape on his roughhorse. While this was going on the Indians would lootthe shanty and steal away. What always struck me most forcibly was the fact thatnothing — the amount of preparation, the arrangement ofmultitudinous details, the memorizing of long parts, themaking of copious notes — ever seemed to be looked uponas the least trouble. The truth was that all these things con-stituted healthy brain and bodily acti
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