MEN OF MAINE 



" Come on, Jim ! I 'm goin' home. I '11 billy 

 be d — d if I '11 walk in two rows for any man." 

 It did not, however, take this class of men long 

 to learn the necessity of discipline in an army, 

 and once this lesson was learned, they made the 

 best troops in the world, as was seen in the career 

 of the famous Buck-tail regiment of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and was proved on many a field by the 

 lumbermen of Maine and Wisconsin. It is only 

 fair to add that the most unpleasant experience 

 these men had was when they met face to face the 

 mountaineers of North Carolina. 



The Maine man is not only chary of his 

 words, but is cautious in his statements. He 

 rarely asserts a fact positively, but is inclined to 

 guess that it may be so, and prefers, indeed, to 

 put a statement in the form of a question, asking 

 another if he does not think or guess that it may 

 be so. This caution of speech was well illustrated 

 on one occasion when my family were moving off 

 from the Insley Hotel, on their way to the island. 

 After watching us a moment a careful woman 

 from Skowhegan turned to a companion and said 

 pleasantly, " Nice people," and then in a moment, 

 possibly fearing she had been too positive, added 

 quickly, " As far as we can see." 



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