The Backwoods Dining Room 



IT does not take the lumberjacks long to dress, 

 for when they go to bed they take off only their 

 caps and shoes. Warmly dressed, they are not 

 cold during the night when the fire in the cabin 

 stove dies down. On rising, the woodsmen wash 

 in their tin basins with ice-cold water from some 

 nearby spring or river. The cold water soon 

 gets them wide awake. 



Once more the great bell outside is rung, and 

 the men rush out of the bunk house. These men 

 are always very hungry, and there is no waiting 

 until everyone is seated at the table. Each thinks 

 of himself, for in the woods the rule is "first 

 come, first served." 



It is just a step through the snow outside to 

 the kitchen and dining room, both together in 

 another log house called the "cook shanty." 

 Here are long wooden tables. There are no 

 tablecloths, and the lumberjacks have no nap- 

 kins. There are no glasses for the water, but all 



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