XIX 



PEOPLE AND TOWNS OF PUGET SOUND 



As one strolls in the woods about the logging- 

 camps, most of the lumbermen are found to 

 be interesting people to meet, kind and obUg- 

 ing and sincere, full of knowledge concerning 

 the bark and sapwood and heartwood of the 

 trees they cut, and how to fell them without 

 unnecessary breakage, on ground where they 

 may be most advantageously sawed into logs 

 and loaded for removal. The work is hard, 

 and all of the older men have a tired, some- 

 what haggard appearance. Their faces are 

 doubtful in color, neither sickly nor quite 

 healthy-looking, and seamed with deep wrin- 

 kles Hke the bark of the spruces, but with no 

 trace of anxiety. Their clothing is full of rosin 

 and never wears out. A Uttle of everything in 

 the woods is stuck fast to these loggers, and 

 their trousers grow constantly thicker with 

 age. In all their movements and gestures they 

 are heavy and deliberate like the trees above 

 them, and they walk with a swaying, rocking 

 gait altogether free from quick, jerky fussiness, 

 for chopping and log-rolling have quenched all 

 that. They are also slow of speech, as if partly 



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