5 The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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It  seems  ridiculous  as  I  sit  here  before 
my  fire  writing  about  it,  but  as  that  glo¬ 
rious  voice  rang  out  through  the  theater 
I  have  seen  old  soldiers  in  the  audience 
jump  up  and  yell,  and  we  “grayhounds” 
would  wave  our  wooden  swords  and  rush 
“into  the  breach,”  driving  the  French 
soldiers  before  us  like  sheep.  That  speech 
to  the  soldiers  impressed  me  so  that  I 
committed  it  to  memory,  Jittle  thinking 
that  I  should  ever  have  occasion  to  use 
it. 
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Years  after,  I  worked  one  Winter  in  a 
Michigan  lumber  camp.  We  were  cut¬ 
ting  cedar  logs  to  be  floated  down  to  the 
lake  to  a  shingle  mill.  A  little  brook 
ran  near  our  camp.  We  threw  a  dam 
across  it  by  digging  a  ditch,  setting  split 
cedar  logs  upright  in  it  and  piling  soil 
around  them.  The  idea  was  to  back  up 
the  water,  put  our  logs  into  the  brook  be¬ 
low  the  dam,  and  then  turn  on  the  flood 
to  wash  the  logs  down  to  the  river.  At 
the  river  a  big  lumber  company  had  con¬ 
trol  of  a  dam  with  a  gateway  through 
which  our  logs  must  pass.  We  were 
small  operators,  and  the  big  concern 
would  gladly  shut  us  off.  It  meant  a 
fight,  and  we  knew  it,  but  everything 
goes,  or  rather  went,  in  the  woods.  We 
backed  up  quite  a  flood  of  water,  and 
when  things  were  ready,  broke  down  the 
dam  and  “let  her  go.”  And  she  went 
with  a  roar.  The  great  flood  swept  down 
the_  path  of  the  brook,  reaching  out  its 
white  fingers  to  pull  in  our  cedar  logs 
and  push  them  on  to  the  river.  We  ran 
alongside  with  poles,  pushing  the  logs 
straight,  to  prevent  a  “jam.”  We  got 
them  to  the  river  and  there  we  stopped. 
A  crowd  of  lumberjacks  stood  in  front  of 
the  gate  of  the  dam  and  refused  to  open 
it.  The  water  was  falling,  and  in  half 
an  hour  our  logs  would  be  stranded.  The 
Winter’s  work  depended  on  our  getting 
them  through.  There  were  about  a  dozen 
men  at  the  dam,  in  front  of  them  a  big 
giant  known  as  the  Red  Rough.  We  had 
a  giant  of  about  equal  size,  known  as  the 
Blue  Swede,  but  he  had  small  appetite 
for  an  encounter  with  the  Red  Rough — 
and  I  could  not  blame  him.  And  there 
we  hesitated,  while  the  precious  water 
soaked  away.  The  foreman  trier  to  spur 
on  the  Blue  Swede,  but  he  merely  shrug¬ 
ged  his  shoulders.  Even  the  Red  Rough’s 
kindly  invitation  failed  to  interest  him. 
“Come  on,  you  tow-headed  slab,  and 
I’ll  put  you  through  the  gate !” 
“If  I  only  had  a  couple  of  drinks  for 
him,”  said  the  foreman,  but  there  was  no 
stimulant  near. 
Then  suddenly  my  mind  went  back  to 
that  old  scene  in  the  Globe  Theater.  The 
peevy  in  my  hands  seemed  like  that  old 
wooden  sword.  Those  lumberjacks  on 
the  dam  seemed  like  the  French  army  on 
the  walls  of  Harfleur,  and  once  more  that 
glorious  voice  stirred  me  to  battle.  Up 
from  the  'bottom  of  my  mind  came  that 
great  passage  from  Shakespeare,  and  be¬ 
fore  I  knew  it  I  was  up  on  a  log — a  true 
descendant  of  King  Henry  in  spirit,  if 
not  in  flesh : 
“Once  more  into  the  breach,  dear  friends, 
*  *  *  *  *  * 
Imitate  the  action  of  the  tiger ! 
Stiffen  the  sinews,  summon  up  the  blood 
*  *  *  *  *  * 
For  there  is  none  of  you  so  mean  and 
base 
That  hath  not  noble  luster  in  his  eye. 
Cry  God  for  Henry,  England  and  St. 
George.” 
I  have  never  known  any  reason  why 
the  Blue  Swede  should  have  fought  for 
England  or  St.  George,  but  the  effect 
upon  him  was  terrific.  He  seemed  to 
grow  in  size.  His  eyes  flashed.  He  waved 
his  great  pole  in  the  air  and  roared  out 
like  a  lion  : 
“I  ban  fight  him  now.” 
Then  he  rushed  right  at  the  Red 
Rough,  while  the  others  followed  him,  as 
the  “English  army”  did  in  the  theater. 
The  Red  Rough  swung  a  terrible  blow 
with  his  peevy.  but  the  Blue  Swede  was 
an  original  fighter.  He  ducked  his  head 
and  butted  like  a  big  ram.  He  caught 
the  Red  Rough  in  the  stomach,  and  that 
was  the  end  of  his  leadership,  and  those 
lumberjacks  ran  as  the  “French  army” 
did  in  that  old  theater.  The  foreman 
pulled  the  lever  and  we  stood  there  and 
passed  our  logs  through  into  the  river, 
where  they  floated  safely  down  to  the 
mill.  20  miles  away  ! 
And  when  it  was  all  over  the  two 
“armies”  came  together  with  far  more 
concord  than  the  allies  of  the  Great  War 
could  show.  In  fact,  some  of  those  lum¬ 
berjacks  helped  put  our  logs  through, 
with  great  cheerfulness. 
“You  licked  us  this  time,  but  wait  till 
the  next  drive!” 
And  one  man  came  up  to  me  and  said: 
“That  was  a  bully  speech  you  made, 
young  feller.  You  ought  to  go  to  Con¬ 
gress.  I  heard  old  Burroughs  speak 
once.  He  roared  good  and  made  more 
noise,  but  what  you  said  beat  him.” 
I  could  not  make  him  understand  that 
Shakespeare  had  sent  his  soul  on  through 
the  years,  and  I  was  only  his  messenger. 
But  do  not  try  to  tell  me  that  Shake¬ 
speare  is  not  alive  today.  H.  w.  c. 
“How  about  this  new  drug  that  com¬ 
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asked  the  laboratory  expert.  “We’ll  turn 
out  a  supply,”  replied  the  manufacturer. 
“But  be  careful  not  to  let  the  man  who 
writes  our  patent  medicine  ads  get  hold 
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