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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A CHOPPER AT WORK, crews or working-parties. Acrew includes from twenty to thirty men, with a leader or boss; two ofthem are skilled choppers; there are two barkers and sled-tenders; eight 108 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. swampers, whose duty is to keep the roads open through the forest ;two sawyers, who cut the logs into proper lengths and mark them, andthe rest are teamsters and fur other miscellaneous employments. The
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WINTER DWELLING OF A CREW OF LOGGERS. cook comes last in order, but he is generally first, at least in the mind ofthe logger when coming home from a hard days work. In old times themen took turns at the cooking, and the bill of fare included very little be-sides pork and beans, and bread and potatoes, Avith fried bacon now andthen, and the steak of a bear killed in the forest. Of late years regular WORK IN A LOGGING CAMP. 109 cooks are employed, and the loggers have a table that would do very wellfor a hotel in the city. They have fresh beef, vegetables, preserves, gameof various kinds, but they have not by any means given up the old-fash-ioned pork and beans. The foremen of the crews select the trees to be cut down, and theymust exercise a great deal of skill and judgment in making their selec-tions, as it often happens that a good-looking tree will be worthless onaccount of internal rot. There are certain signs that appear only to theinitiated, and where a tree is decayed it is best

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