. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 169 circumstances of a weak back. (Monkey wrench, oil-can and screw driver sent with this joke; also rules for working it in different kinds of goods.) The tobacco used by the pine â¢hoppers of the northern forest is called the Scandihoovian. I do not know why they call it that, unless it is that you can smoke it in Wisconsin and smell it in Scandihoovia. When night came we would gather around the blazing fire and talk over old times and smoke th
. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 169 circumstances of a weak back. (Monkey wrench, oil-can and screw driver sent with this joke; also rules for working it in different kinds of goods.) The tobacco used by the pine â¢hoppers of the northern forest is called the Scandihoovian. I do not know why they call it that, unless it is that you can smoke it in Wisconsin and smell it in Scandihoovia. When night came we would gather around the blazing fire and talk over old times and smoke this tobacco. I smoked it until last week ; then I bought a new mouth and resolved to lead a different life. I shall never forget the even- ings we spent together in that log shack in the heart of the forest. They are graven on my memory where time's effacing fingers cannot monkey with them. We would always converse The crew talked the Norwegian language, and I am using the English language mostly this winter. So each enjoyed himself in his own quiet way. This seemed to throw the Norwe gians a good deal together. It also threw me a good deal together. The Scandinavians soon learn our ways and our language, but prior to that they are quite clannish. The cook, however, was an Ohio man. He â poke the Sandusky dialect with a rich, nut- brown flavor that did me much good, so that after I had talked with the crew a few hours in English and received their harsh, corduroy replies in Norske, I gladly fled to the cook shanty. There I could rapidly change to the smoothly flowing sentences peculiar to the Ohio tongue, and while I eat the common twisted doughnut of commerce we would talk on and on of the pleasant days we had spent in our own native land. I talked to him of his old home till the tears would un- bidden start, as he rolled out the dough with a common Budweiser beer bottle and shed the scalding tears into the flour barrel. Tears are always unavailing, but sometimes I think the
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