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Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
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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very forcible. Thework of the teamster is not free from danger, as a log is liable to swing-around in certain conditions of the road and crush him ; or it may driveahead upon him and his team while descending a hill. The choppers arealso liable to be killed by the broken limbs and branches thrown throughthe air when a tree falls, and sometimes while they are at work they willbe struck by limbs dislodged by the jar of their axes against the trunk.The great trees fall with a crash that makes the woods resound for a greatdistance, and is by no means unlike a volley of musketry. The logs are unloaded from the sleds at the bank of the river, andthey lie there until the ice breaks up in the spring, the water rises, andeverything is ready for the the drive. The last trees are cut for the season, the last loads are hauled, andthe camp is ready to be broken up. The logs are to be floated down theriver to the mills, where they will be cut into lumber, and the lumber LIFE OF A RIVER-DRIVER. Ill
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IKKlAUIXO FOIJ THK DRIVE. loaded into ships to carry it to market. It is very necessary to catch thespring floods at their highest point, as the logs can only be floated whenthe river is fullest. Consequently the leaders of the loggers are on thewatch for the first indications of the melting of the snows, and have alltheir preparations completed. Oars and poles for managing the logs havebeen made by the carpenter at his little shanty near the river, and a greatnumber of spare pieces are ordered, to replace those that are sure to belost in the course of the drive. The river-drivers are generally the men who have been at workas cutters, teamsters, loaders, etc., in the forest, and their wages for thedrive are increased in consequence of the additional danger involved.They are a rough, jolly lot of fellows, and are much given to fighting asa pastime. When they invade the river towns on their way down in thespring, they make it very lively for the residents, and sometimes do agreat deal o
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