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Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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the back, and thetables were hewn out of logs or made of thick planks. The place waswarmed by a stove in one corner, but they were told that stoves were lux-uries not often seen in a lumbermens camp, and most of the cabins wereheated by open fires. A kerosene lamp suspended from one of the raf-ters gave a sufficient light for reading or writing; and as they came intothe room one of the men was engaged in the preparation of a letter forthe benefit of one of his companions who was unable to write. Anotherwas seated close at hand with his rifle; he was the hunter of the estab-lishment, and had just returned from shooting a moose, which wouldkeep the house in fresh meat for several days. The rafters were hung with a variety of garments such as the loggerswear ; they were put there for the double reason that it was an excellentplace for keeping them dry, and there was no other spot for storing them.One rafter was appropriated to stockings, many of them much the worse 118 THE YOUNG NIMRODS.
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EVENING IN CAMP. for wear. Harry thought, if they were in that condition early in thewinter, they would be in a very bad way by the end of the season. Most of the men in the camp had gone to bed, and others were jnstgoing. The sleeping-place of the loggers was an amusing sight to theboys. George said he had heard of things as thick as three in a bed,but here he found there were not only three but four times that numberin one bed together. There were two beds, one on each side of the room,and they consisted simply of long boxes filled with pine-leaves, and cov-ered witli blankets. The men lay close together on their sides ; so dense-ly wrere they packed that when one turned over it was necessary for allto turn. Such a method of sleeping would hardly answer for the city,but in the backwoods men are not so particular, and their out-door life SCENES IN A LOGGING CAMP. 119 and hard work make the soft side of a pine-board seem more luxuriousthan does a downy couch to the dyspeptic idler. Th

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