The cook had to watch out to keep the supply house closed up
tight, or there'd 'a' been a famine in camp, sure.
"Waal, one day the foreman sent me out to look over a section of timber
land some distance from the camp, an' I set off right after breakfast.
I took my axe along, o' course; no lumberman ever thinks o' goin'
anywhere without his axe, any more than you boys figure on travelin'
around without packin' a six-gun with yuh. I took enough grub with me to
last the day out, fer, as I said, it was a longish distance, an' I didn't
reckon t' get back much before dark. It was the middle o' winter, an' the
days up there in the woods were mighty short.
"The snow was pretty deep, but I traveled on snowshoes, an' didn't have
much trouble gettin' along. I made tol'able time, an' made a rough survey
o' the timber before I unpacked my grub. After eatin' I started back to
camp, congratulatin' myself that I'd reach it with time an' to spare. But
as some poetry sharp I once heard of says, 'Man proposes, but the
Almighty disposes,' or words that mean the same thing.
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