The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-10

we're pleased to allude to the subject or
this little narrative, no would have
passed among the commoner classes in
the city as somewhat of an esthete.
1t was UP in the pines along the White
Fish river, and at that time of year
when preparations were being made to
go into camp, that Bub (my dude) found
his way into the midst of a gang of men
who were getting ready to winter near
Hay Meadow, twenty-five miles to the
east of tho river, among some of the
prettiest pine that in 1878 grew on the
upper peninsula of Michigan. Bub had
strayed up from Chicago in search of adj
venture, and, having metwith sufficient
to appease his yearn, and nearly exhaust
his eXchequer, he was compelled to re-
sort to manual labor to obtain the where
withal to procure the necessities for the
prolon cation of his Ito himself) valua-
BILE existence. Accordingly land per-
force), it being the only obtainable en-
ployment in view, he closed with an Of
fer of situation as tail cook to the gang
mentioned.
When he arrived at the mill from
'The Point" as Escanaba was called,
he wore store clothes and a Picadilly
collar, but before twentyfour hours had
elapsed AZ White Fish he determined to
dispense with all superfuities of COS
tune ana on the second morning after
his arrival he appeared in the garb of
common laborer. But it was not such
an easy matter to shake off the manner
isms of a lifetime, and that lackadaisical
air he wore up from tho metropolis stuck
to him and went with him into the
rough life of tho woods. His somewhat
natty attire and cityfed ways on his
first appearance, before his name had
been given, suggested to the old heads
at the mill the title of Bub, and all
through his stay on the White Fish, Bub
he was.
After a multitude of mishaps and
some very trying experiences, among
which were his unsatisfactory services
at the tail end of the commissary de-
partment, Bub became somewhat recon-
ciled to the rigors of camp life, and re-
solved to winter it out" in spite of his
thorough distaste for any such mode of
existence. His patience was sorely
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of the hands in playing tricks upon him
and cracking rude jokes at his expense.
Occasionally he lost his temper and was
on the point of rebelling, but discretion
became the better part of yalor with
him, and he refrained from any hostile
demonstrations. Indeed, little less than
hilarity could have been expected from
the untutored sons of the forest at some
of the ludicrous happenings through his
ignorance of the ways of the woods and
his maiden efforts in the culinary line.
1t became necessary, among his varied
and multitudinous duties, for him to con-
vey to the working ground at the noon
hour the luncheon of the hands, and,
while they prepared for the welcome
bite and sup, to attend to the making of
huge pot of tea, which to the half
frozen toilers was as precious as fresh
ly-blown honeysuckle to a bee in spring
time. While good black coffee was the
staple drink of the men, an occasional
pot of tea was served as sort of sop to
expedite their labor. On the first at
tempt of Bub to create from tho rather
inferior grade of basket fired Japan"
the much appreciated distillation known
to the woodsmen as ''old maids elixir"
he unconsciously perpetrated return
joke upon his prosecutors which resulted
in a grand growl on their part.
He built a roaring fire of pine boughs
and soon had the great tin boiler steam
ing and bubbling away like a miniature
geyser. But an essential in the compo-
sition cf even an ordinary cup CT tea
had been omitted-namely, the tea
This occurred TO him but moment be-