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space and found only half a dozen 

 log buildings, just like any lumber 

 camp. In fact this was a lumber 

 camp, but the lumbermen, having 

 finished for the season, had gone 

 away. 



As soon as they reached camp 

 everybody made haste to wash in 

 water from the lake, dipped up and 

 panned in ten basins set on stumps 

 "and stones. This was no sooner 

 over than the cook, in a white cap 

 and a long, white apron, came out of 

 the cook-house and beat with a bar 

 on a steel triangle hanging on a 

 frame outside the door. 



At this welcome call to supper all 

 went into the cook-house and seated 

 themselves on benches around long 

 tables. 



At the other end of the room was 

 the kitchen where, from pots and 

 pans on a big range the cook and his 

 assistant quickly put soup, hot roast 

 beef, potatoes, beans, pudding and 

 pie and tea before the scholars. This 

 was practically the fare on which 

 the shantymen had lived who had 

 left for the season. People who im- 

 agine that shantymen live nowadays 

 entirely on salt pork, beans and 

 black molasses have not kept in 

 touch with modern lumbering. 



After supper, as the night was 

 somewhat chilly, all the men went 

 into the bunk-house. There was a 

 big stove in the middle of this house 

 and near it a long table. Along the 

 walls on each side were ranged two 

 rows of bunks one above the other 

 like the berths of a sleeping car. 

 The shelves or bunks sloped slightly 

 toward the floor in the centre and 

 all the sleepers slept with their feet 

 toward the stove and their heads to 

 the walls. 



Around the Study Lamps. 

 Lamps were lit and the scholars 

 gathered themselves about the table 

 with the teacher at one end to write 

 up the work of he day. The Boy 

 thought the bunks looked what he 

 called "comfy" and, having found 



were he was to sleep, he was soon in 

 bed. The last he knew was that the 

 men around the lamps were talking 

 of "altitude" and "dip" and "yield 

 tables," and "township lines" and 

 "east forties." 



It seemed that he had just closed 

 his eyes when he was again wide 

 awake because of the most terrify- 

 ing noise. It must be a fire. The 

 fire brigade must be coming and 

 then he slowly realized that he was 

 not at home but was in the School in 

 the Forest. Then he thought it 

 must be on fire for the noise went 

 on more angrily than ever. It was 

 not yet daylight. There was one 

 lamp on the table and in its light he 

 could see forms moving about 

 drowsily. Men, yawning, hunting 

 for boots, asking for caps, stretching 

 themselves up lazily could be seen 

 all over the row of bunks opposite 

 to him. It did not seem as if they 

 were in a hurry. "Is it a fire?" he 

 asked his bed fellow. 



"No, that is the cook ringing the 

 rising bell, and if you want any 

 breakfast you had better get up." 



In spite of his hearty supper the 

 Boy felt he could not afford to miss 

 breakfast, so he hurried on his 

 clothes and gave himself a lick-and- 

 a-promise wash in the cold, cold 

 water in the tin basin outside. They 

 had breakfast by lamplight and a 

 very good breakfast it was. There 

 was porridge with syrup, fried ba- 

 con, hashed potatoes, good thick 

 bread and butter (both thick), ap- 

 ple sauce, prunes and coffee. 



When breakfast was over the men 

 got out their lunch boxes and each 

 man made up a lunch for himself 

 from eatables he selected from an- 

 other long table where they were all 

 set out for that purpose. They made 

 sandwiches of meat, cheese and jam, 

 helped out sometimes with a boiled 

 egg, a couple of cookies or a piece 

 of pie. The cook thus gets two 

 meals a day, while the scholars are 

 the best judges of what and how 

 much they require for lunch. 



