pense was incurred, or time spent, if alive, itihe offender 

 was arrested. Only recently a party returned from a 

 two years hunt for some esquimoux who were reported 

 to have murdered two Americans in the extreme North. 

 The party after great hardship in the Artie regions 

 found their men who however proved the killing to 

 have been done in self defense. 



HUOMATKAA! ! 



Isn't that a warning which might reasonably be ex- 

 pected to start something? Just a casual glance at the 

 Forester's mail any of these mornings would bear out 

 the suggestion. And yet this "Stop, Look, Listen" 

 signal is no more weird than is the fate which is to be- 

 fall some of the timber in the Finnish settlements of 

 northeastern Minnesota, that is, if we are to credit 

 English as "she is spoke" with the aid of a Finnish- 

 English dictionary. For "Huomatkaa" is merely the 

 title to the Finn notice calling attention to the law 

 which -requires that before cutting any timber the op- 

 erator rnusi send the Forester a list of the descriptions, 

 in order that rangers may keep a check on slash 

 disposal. Since we apparently write Finnish, many of 

 the operators assume that we must be able to read it as 

 well ; so the subject matter of several letters is written 

 in that language, and the State Forester's title under- 

 goes a metamorphosis and becomes "Valtion metsan- 

 tarkastaja." But to our great relief, legal descriptions 

 do not seem to be readily translatable, and accordingly 

 we can notify the Ranger that Vaino "VViikinen intends 



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