The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-14
THE LOG ROLLING.

Back in the Muskoka region of ontar- io, Canada, the country Is at once so wildy so beautiful. and so difficult oI cultivation that thoughts have been of setting on foot projects to reserve the entire region for g sort of govern mental hunting part But the time-hon- ored.. ever-popular drama which mas pa t0a it's motif and principal characters the love story of a man and maid IS played out there in ways as varied and as per, petual as all the world over. It would be played oftener, perhaps, but TOT the fact that the young men of the farming districts are so seldom at home. In the winter nearly all of them head Tor tne camps, where the logs are cut and maee ready for transportation; in the summer great numbers of them go to the great Northwest" so mysterious1y attractive to all the young denizens of the Muskoka, supposed to be So much higher and times so much better than at home A nalo o' the glory of success shines about the re- turning trafn-loads of eager young men. good nowadays, but even the girls are not able to attend school very long Tn their teens unless there are plenty Of younger or older sisters to assist wss tbs inevitable and numer9us babies. Ine boys, alas! are usually seized with camp fever" just as soon as they are ant or chore-boy of a lumber camp. Mi randa Jenkins was the middle sister m a faimIy of nine, Fred Portman was.tne only son of his mother Sandfsfe a widow
 Miranda s was fairly veil seucatsdl l and, and reasonably learned in the ways of the con ventional world. Fred still talked In rather nasal fashion and did rod TolenHe foysS to Miranda so devotediy that he ghad seri- ous thoughts of saving up' afldt attend ing night school in Toronto jNst as soon 500. able, financially, for a year or so. just because Miranda had urged this course upon him. For himself Fred didn't nan. ker after an augpentsd sa,t ed1eauon trot, +h. a. Northwest for the last time Miranda seemed to have suddenly removed Tar from him by the new accession of qules grace and daintiness which had followed the winter passed in toronto, learning how to make dresses.
 Fred went right to work at the 'lQg- rolling for which he was famous. The lSf. Sss wsfs RereS the nan Vsf the a'
 homestead and the farm which Fred and his mother owned between them and it was Fred's part to keep them rpm becoming caught and piled up in the stream above the rapids. To do this he danced from log to log, above the seeth, ing, hurrying, hungry-looking water, ana Kept the logs moving & Wltn h ,ong, tnp porn citv girl whom Miranda had brought back with her for a chance to see the grass grow green in the meadows and the early violets come up expressed a great desire to see the logs sent down the river. She had watched them rushing madly over "the slide just above the saw mill in the nearest village several times now she yearned to see the rest of the process. So Milanda's father hitched the big gray roadster to the spring buggy and the two girls drove off together; And the city girl gave great gasp oI wonder and admiration when first she caught sight of the log-rolling.
 What a fine figure that man has the one out there in the middle of the stream!" she exclaimed, to Miranda, pointing to Fred.
 "Yes," spoke out the subconscious self