The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-11-11
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mate the young fellow who assisted
Tom Broadhead in the telling. Henry
Paul was fresh complexioned, clear
eyed. quick hammered young fellow,
with an air of steady responsibility
about him. He came from the southern
part Of the state, where during the
summer he worked on a little home
stead farm of his own. After few
days he told Thorpe that he was mar
ried, and after " few days more he
showed his bunk mate the. photograph
of a sweet faced young woman who
looked trustinCly ont of the picture.
'She's waiting down there for me,
and it amt 50 very hong till spring"
said Paul wistfully. "She's the best lit
tie woman man ever had. and there
0in't nothing too good for her. chunl-
my"
|horpe, soul sick after his recent ex-
periences with the charity of the world.
discovered a real pleasure in this fresh.
clear passion.
Three days after the newcomer had
started in at the swapping Paul. dur
ing their early morning walk from
camp to the scene Of their operations,
confded in him further.
Got another letter, chummy," said
he. Come in yesterday. She tells
me-" lie hesitated, with a blush, and
then happy laugh that they amt
going 10 be only two of us at the farm
next year
you meanT" queried Thorpe.
Eyes" laughed Paul land If it's n
girl she gets named after her mother,
you bet"
The men separated. In a moment
Thorpe found himself waist deep in
the pitehy aromatic top of an old bull
sap, clipping away at the projecting
branches. After a time he heard Paul's
gay halloo.
Timber came the cry, and then
the swish-sh-sh-crash of the trees
fall.
Thorpe knew that now either Hank
or Tom must be climbing with the long
measuring pole along the PROSTATE
trunk. marking by means Of shallow
AK clips where the saw was to divide
the logs. Then Tom shouted some
thing unintelligible. The other men
seemed to understand, however, for
they dropped their wOEk and~ran hastL
ly in the direction II the voice. Thorpe
after a moments INDIGESTION did the
same. He arrived to find a group
about q PROSTATE man. The man was
Paul.
Two Of the older woodsmen, kneel-
ing, were conducting coolly a hasty
examination. At the front every man
is more or less of a surgeon.
"Is he hurt badly?" asked Thorpe.
what is it?'
Hes dead" answered one of the
other men soberly.
With the skill Of CHASTITY practice
some of them wove q litter, on which
the body was placed. The pathetic
little procession novel ian the solemn,
inscrutable forest.
When the tree had fallen it had
crashed through the top of another,
leaving suspended in the branches of
the latter n long, heavy limb. A slight
breeze dislodged it. Henry Paul was
impaled as by jayehn.. This Is the
chief of the many perils of,the, woods.
That evening the camp was unusual
.ly quiet. Taller let his fiddle hang.
After supper Thorpe was approached
by Purdy, the reptilian redhead with
whom he had had the row some even
ings before.
You in, chummyr' he asked in a
quiet voice. ITS five apiece for
Hanks woman"
"Yes," said Thorpe.
The men were earning from $50 to
$50 a month. They had most OF them
never seen Hank Paul before this au-
tumn. He had not, mainly because of
his modest disposition, enjoyed any ex-
traordinary degree of popularity, yet
these strangers cheerfully. as matter
of course, gave up the proceeds of q
weeks hard work, and that without
expecting the slightest personal credit.
The money was sent "frem the boys"
Thorpe later read heartbroken letter
to the unknown benefactors. 1t touched
him deeply, and he suspected the other
men of the same emotions, but by that
time they had regained the Independ-
ent, self contained poise of the from
tiersman. They read II with unmoved
faces and tossed it aside with a more
than ordinarily rough joke or oath.
Thorpe understood their reticence. 1t
was a part Of his own nature. He felt
more than ever akin to these men.
AS swamper he had more or less to
do with cant hook IN helping the
teamsters roll the end of the log on the
little "dray" lie soon caught the
knack. Toward Christmas he had be-
come fairly efficient cant hook man
and was helping roll the great sticks of
timber up the slandng skids. Thus al
ways intelligence counts, especially
that rare intelligence which resolves
into the analytical and the infinitely
observing.
He was getting just the experience
and the knowledge he needed, but that
was about all. His wages were $50
month. which his van bill would re-
duce to the double eagle. At the end.
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