"The shanty boy." or, Life in a lumber camp. Being pictures of the pine woods in discriptions [!], tales, songs and adventures in the lumbering shanties of Michigan and Wisconsin.

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to tell it to-night. Howsomever, we are not far from Sandy Mclntyre's camp, so le's peg out an' get through now we are well rested." I have striven to give the foregoing story as near in the dialect and style, as told me by "Silver Jack." If the endeavor to imitate the language of the woodsman has robbed the tale of some of its pathetic features, for the reader, I will regret it very mnch. As told to me in the phraseology of the camp, it certainly affected me strongly. CHAPTER XVIII. A Shanty Boy's Love Story--How Fred Fullgraft Nearly Lost His Bride--The Treachery Of The Tote Teamster--All Is Well That Ends Well--One For The Boys. "Say darling, say, when I am far away, Sometimes you may think of me, dear; Bright sunny days will soon fade away, Remember what I say to be true dear," "1 cannot see Katie, how you could ever have taken a notion to me?" "A notion, Fred? You certainly do not pay a very valuable compliment to the highest gift a woman can give a man, in the first love of her young heart, when you style that gift a 'notion.'" "Well dear, don't be vexed. You know what I mean, and that is that a sweet little girl like you, beautiful, educated, and holding socially the position you do in society, could ever have responded to the love of a rough shanty boy, save with the contempt it would seem to merit." "Now Fred dear, are you really mean enough to fish for compliments, or have you forgotten that self disparagement is the worst kind of flattery? I cannot believe that of you, and I know the heart of the true gentleman may be found oftener beating beneath the suit of 'Mackinaws,' than under broad cloth. I love you Fred dear, because you are my ideal of a man, and you know as Burns says: 'The king may make a belted knight, But a man's a man for all th...