the season, a green hand wil^ 

 sometimes complain of long" 

 honrs and heavy work, but 

 the older employees will not 

 tolerate a loafer, and before 

 many days he has caught the 

 survey spirit, "That the man 

 who is always willing to take 

 the worst of it will find every 

 other man always willing to- 

 take the worst of it." 



Sundays do not especially 

 exist as a day of rest, unless 

 it is storming too hard to 

 even move camp. To be sure, 

 breakfast is had at 7 instead 

 of at 6, and the men usually 

 return to camp by 5. This 

 applies to the Fourth of July 

 and other holidays as well. 

 Not a day can be wasted, for 

 at the best a field season i^ 

 only of 100 days' duration. 



Incident there is in plenty, 

 but it is soon forgotten in the 

 next. 



Reaburn, in advance of the 

 main party, was going to 

 Eagle from Dawson by canoe 

 just after the opening of the 

 river. Where the river nar- 

 rows above Forty Alile there 

 was a jam of ice. There was 

 no chance to make the shore, 

 so he headed for what ap- 

 peared to be the most solid 

 part. As he struck he drew 

 his canoe onto the ice. When 

 asked what he did next, he 

 answered, "Got into the canoe 

 and went to sleep." This with 

 the ice cracking and breaking 

 all around him. 



Hardly a year goes by that 

 some man does not get treed 

 by a bear, and that special 

 bear is always the largest bear 

 in Alaska. 



A pack of timber wolves 

 tried to be friendly with a 

 couple of packers on the 

 Black River, but were beaten 

 off. 



That Providence w h i c h 

 watches over babes and 

 drunken men must also watch 

 over surveyors, for with the 

 risks which are taken I can- 



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