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After all the logs for the season are cut and yarded they are next 

 drawn on double bobsleds to the landing on the bank of a stream or 

 pond, the operation being designated "lauding," for in Maine prac- 

 tically all the logs, Avhether destined for paper stock or lumber, are 

 taken to the mills by running water in the natural waterways. Dur- 

 ing landing all the general management is still in the hands of the 

 foreman. The yardmen clear the yards of snow and load the logs in 

 great piles on the double bob or " wagon" sleds. The teamsters draw 

 the logs from the yards to the landing place, and the landing men 

 unload the logs and build the landing. The scaler surveys the logs, 

 and the road crew keep the roads in good condition for hauling. All 

 the operations involve hard work and long hours. 



During these operations the crew live at the main camp. The cook 

 builds the fires and does the cooking. The cookees, in addition to 

 helping the cook, carry the dinners to the men where they may hap- 

 pen to be at work. The "toter," as the man is called who hauls in 

 supplies and attends to similar work, makes more or less frequent 

 trips to the nearest supply point; in the case of the camp studied, a 

 railway station. 



THE DAILY ROUTINE. 



The men work six days a week, Sunday being a day of rest from 

 the regular occupation. On a working day the cook rises at 3.45 

 o'clock, builds the fires, and cooks breakfast, and at 4.45 calls the 

 "cookees." At 5 o'clock the lumbermen are called, breakfast being 

 served at 5.15. Just as soon as the men can see to follow the road 

 the men and horses start to their work, usually about 6 o'clock. 

 Dinner is served by the "cookees" when the men are at work, any- 

 where *from 11 to 12 o'clock. The dinner "hour" is simply long 

 enough for the men to eat and to fill their pipes. The men leave 

 work wlien it becomes so dark that they can not longer do the work 

 properly. Suj^per is usually served at 5.30, and at 9 o'clock the lights 

 are all out and most of the men are in bed. 



On Sunday no work is done in the woods and the usual routine is 



varied. The cook rises at 0.30, the men breakfast at 8, eat their 



dinner at 12, and their supper at 5.30. The retiring hour is 9 o'clock. 



Sunday is the wash day of the woodsmen, and from daylight to dark 



the one washtub and washboard of the men's camp are in constant 



demand. 



DRIVING THE LOGS. 



The logs are taken from the woods to the mills in natural water- 

 ways, the brooks and streams often forming chains with small lakes, 

 and this operation, perhaps, calls for the greatest physical exertion of 

 any connected witli lumbering, while at the same time the work is 

 performed under the most trying conditions, as may be seen from the 

 brief account which follows. About the time the logs are all yarded 



