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Excerpt from Trips and Adventures, Vol. 2: Accounts of Interesting and Varied Experiences
About forty workmen were engaged in the woods near by, cutting the trees and sawing the logs into lengths from twelve to eighteen feet. Others loaded the logs on the large sleds, by which the legs were conveyed three and a half miles to Long Lake. Here they were placed on the ice to await the warm weather of spring-time, when they were to be floated to the sawmill a mile distant. The sawmill was operated only in summer, to work up the timber cut the winter before, the average annual product being about two million feet.
Two large log houses, each about thirty feet wide and sixty feet long, composed the buildings of the camp. One was for the kitchen and the dining - room, while the other was filled with beds.
As a rule, the men were rough, and spent their spare time at camp in telling stories and playing cards, and even gambling to such an extent that their monthly pay was often lost almost as soon as they received it.
It was not the place for a boy of pure thoughts and ideals, as Emmet, who had always been taught by a Christian mother to live right. But during the winter the lumber - camp was about the only place where he could find employment in order to support his widowed mother and his brothers and sisters. Emmet had learned how to trust God, even while among those rough men, who lived very evil Lives and profaned God's name with almost every expression.
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