. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 01 CANADA L U M P. E R M A N Thanks Burke and Good Luck! How Optimistic Salesman During Holiday Period Put Pep and Punch Into Dejected Retailer Who Was Having Rather Hard Sledding By William Marshall. DMUND W. Burke, or "; as his friends call him, was brought up in the atmosphere surrounding" a sawmill. His father was superintendent of a plant up North. The family lived in a trim looking house about two hundred yards from the mill. Burk
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 01 CANADA L U M P. E R M A N Thanks Burke and Good Luck! How Optimistic Salesman During Holiday Period Put Pep and Punch Into Dejected Retailer Who Was Having Rather Hard Sledding By William Marshall. DMUND W. Burke, or "; as his friends call him, was brought up in the atmosphere surrounding" a sawmill. His father was superintendent of a plant up North. The family lived in a trim looking house about two hundred yards from the mill. Burke senior, when he was sent up from Sudbury to construct the mill, thought it would be a wise plan to build his house where he could keep a watchful eye on the place. He was one of those conscientious chaps who gives the same care to their employer's property that they would to their own. But, could he have peeped into the future and seen what manner of boy his latest offspring was going to develop into he would have built that house about five miles from the mill. Ed. found a fascination about the machinery in the big mill, and on every occasion when his mother's back was turn- ed, he made a bee-line in the direction of the screeching saws to watch the big logs being cut into boards. He longed for the day when he could stand on one of those carriages and travel backward and forward as every plank was severed from the log. His father had promised him the best "batin' " he ever had in his life (Burke senior was a genial Irishman, as may have been inferred from his name) if he ever saw so much as his nose peeping around the corner of the mill. Ed. was the only boy in the family and, I have reason to be- lieve, his father was glad of it. Be that as it may he was very fond of "the young divil," and lived in constant fear of seeing him caught in the machinery. In spite of many warnings and dire threats and a number of applications of the rod, Ed. continued to snea
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