Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-09
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played the fiddle He freeze t'rou to hees eenside. Dat is too cole for mak- in de work.'
 sThem plains is sure holy fright" assented Purdy
 9Th old man knows it hirnself," agreed big Nolan.
 Did you see him rammin' around yesterday askin' US if we found her too cold? He knows very well he ought not to keep man out that sort O weather"
 You'd shiver like dog in brier path on a warm day in July said Jackson Hines contenaptuously.
 "Shut up!' said they. You're barn boss. You don't have to be out in the cold"
 This was true. So Jackson's inter vention went for a little worse than nothing.
 Tt ain't lak he has nuttin' besides" went on Baptiste He can mak' de cut in de needle of de fores'. ]"
 That's right" agreed Bob Stratton. sThey's the west half of eight ain't been cut yet"
 so LIGy SSIlt q uGiGSdtlOA tO ANSoWdy. Big Nolan was the spokesman.
 Boss" said he bluntly, "she's too cold to work on them plains today. She's the coldest day we had"
 Radway was too old hand at the business to make any promises on the spot.
 "I'll see, boys,'' said he.
 When the breakfast was over the crew were sent to making skidways and travoying roads on "eight." This was precedent Tn time the work on the plains was grumblingly done in any weather. However, as to this Radway proved firm enough. He was good fighter when he knew he was being inn posed upon.
 And as the days slipped by he tight ened the reins. Christmas was ap- preaching. An easy mathematical com putation reduced the question of com pleting his contract with Morrison & Daily to a certain weekly quota. Tn fact, he was surprised at the size of it. He would have to work diligently and steadily during the rest of the winter.
 Having thus definite. task to ac- CUAlp1ASA HI d uSlhllC 8il0AADV-A OA 9AAJ oy Radway grew to be more of task master. Thus he regained to a small degree the respect of his men. Then he lost it again.
 One morning he came in from talk with the supply teamster and woke Dyer, who was not up yet.
 "rm going down home for two or three weeks" he announced to Dyer. You know my address. You'll have to take charge, and I guess you'd better let the scaling go. We can get the tally at the banking grounds when we begin to haul. Now, we ain't got all the time there is so you want to keep the boys at 1t pretty we'll.
 Dyer twisted the little points of his mustache. "All right, sir,' said he, with his smile so inscrutably insolent that Radway never saw the insolence at all. He thought this poor year for a man in Railways position to spend Christmas with his family, but 1t was none of his business.
 "Do as much as you can in the marsh. Dyer," went on the jobber T don't believe it's really necessary to lay off any more there on account of the weather
 ."A All right" repeated Dyer.
 The scaler did what he considered his duty. All day long he tramped back and forth from one gang of men to the other, keeping sharp eye on the details of the work. His practical experience was sufficient to solve readi- ly such problems as broken tackle, ex- tra expedients or facility which the days brought forth. The fact that in him was vested the power to discharge kept the men at work.
 Dyer was in the habit of starting for the marsh an hour or so after sunrise. The crew, of course, were at work by daylight. Dyer heard them often through his doze, just as he heard the chore boy come in to build the fire and