Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

P1T4 t1E early settlers OF New brunswick were ter
ribly harrassed by the depredations of large
timber wolves and "Injun DEVILS" as the
cougars of that region called.
Not only did those beasts make fearful havoc
upon the farmers focks, but they also made it
perilous for man to journey alone at night.
Sometimes they even ventured to attack a single
traveller in broad daylight.
Perhaps as exciting incident of this kind as
is still told by the living participants in those
pioneer times is the adventure with "Injun
devil" which befell young "Kanuck" cook in
October, 1843.
The lumber camp, in which he was employed,
was located the northwest fork of the Mirami-
chi River, about forty miles from the city of New
castle, which has since been completely swept
away by fire.
The choicest timber-and in those days lumber
men disdained to cut anything else-had been
logged for radius of nearly two miles around
the camp.
This was too great distance for the loggers to
travel for their midday meal, so Pierre lie Clair,
the cook was instructed to bring their dinner into
the woods, where they were working, and to get
there at IL o'clock sharp, for class of men in
the world have keener appetites than lumber
men. IS sft
The cook was habitually as punctual as the sun
But one day. when noon came, cook was to be
seen. Those readers who have seen houseiul of
hungry boarders waiting for belated meal can
form a faint idea of the temper of that gang of
loggers, they sat around logs and stumps,
waiting for chance to lay violent hands upon the
contents of the two big tin pals in which the cook
brought their dinner. Only faint idea, however,
for these men were fearfully and awfully hungry,
and their opinions of a cook that would starve a
gang of honest oggers, in the heart of the Mirami
chi woods, expressed without any symptom
of the restraints of clearinghouse etquet!
One o'clock and still cook! Something was
plainly the matter at camp. The "boss,' fore
man, he would now be called ordered the men
to proceed to camp, where they could manage to
pick up dinner whether the cook dead
alive.
But to return to the cook He had prepared the
dinner with his customary promptness and at the
usual hour had placed it-hot and smoking-into
his mammoth pals, and set out for the loggers.
The woods seemed wonderfully still and lonely,
and at first he whistled the stirring, revolutionary
strains of the MarSeilldSe. But the pals of din
ner were so heavy that he soon tired of spending,
in whistlng, breath that needed in "toteng,"
and amused himself by silently watching the down
ward dodgers of the "sap-suckers," they girdled
the pines with their cork-screw course from
branches to butt
Meantime delicious odor of roast beef was dis
tilling from under the lids of his pals, and float
ing away into the forest like fragrant incense. 1t
was enough to have tempted the appetite of
"Grahamite"-to say nothing of an "Injuns devil"
which is quite correctly supposed to unite In
dams Unsuitable hunger with the finer virtues
of veritable demon.
The Grahamite not there to be tempted but
the "Injun's devil" was, and the first sniff ofsthe
savory steam from the cooks pals drew him
from his midday hiding place, upon the cooks
trail. The supple cat glided swiftly and silent
ly through the woods, until he only
q few rods behind the cook, when the