LAKING 



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A Bateau 



the furnace glow, we saw illuminated 

 in half lights a man of short but stocky 

 build, whose large square head was 

 partially concealed by the broad brim 

 of a felt hat pulled far down over one 

 eye, leaving the upper features in 

 shadow, through which sharp eyes 

 shone with quick intelligence, and a 

 firm square jaw framed in with the 

 will of domination. 



Over the bow, the dim outlines of a 

 boat appeared in the mist, a line was 



thrown and a friendly hand given over 

 the side, and as the messenger climbed 

 on deck, the emergency that had 

 brought him many miles that night in 

 the darkness was disclosed, as both 

 Captain and messenger wended their 

 way to the cook's galley for a tin of 

 daylight coffee. It appeared that at 

 the head of the lake where many logs 

 were being turned out into a bagging 

 boom at the mouth of a river, the supply 

 of surrounding boom sticks had run 





Bateaux on the Drive 



