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Peattie + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Michigan Man + 1891 + +Author: Elia W. Peattie + +Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23176] +Last Updated: January 9, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MICHIGAN MAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + A MICHIGAN MAN + </h1> + <h3> + By Elia W. Peattie <br /><br /> Copyright, 1891, by J. B. Lippincott & + Co <br /> + </h3> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + A pine forest is nature's expression of solemnity and solitude. Sunlight, + rivers, cascades, people, music, laughter, or dancing could not make it + gay. With its unceasing reverberations and its eternal shadows, it is as + awful and as holy as a cathedral. + </p> + <p> + Thirty good fellows working together by day and drinking together by night + can keep up but a moody imitation of jollity. Spend twenty-five of your + forty years, as Luther Dallas did, in this perennial gloom, and your soul—that + which enjoys, aspires, competes—will be drugged as deep as if you + had quaffed the cup of oblivion. Luther Dallas was counted one of the most + experienced axe-men in the northern camps. He could fell a tree with the + swift surety of an executioner, and in revenge for his many arborai + murders the woodland had taken captive his mind, captured and chained it + as Prospero did Ariel. The resounding footsteps of Progress driven on so + mercilessly in this mad age could not reach his fastness. It did not + concern him that men were thinking, investigating, inventing. His senses + responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; a steadfast wind + ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of + the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of the ocean to the mariner + were the resinous scents of the forest to him. Like a sailor, too, he had + his superstitions. He had a presentiment that he was to die by one of + these trees—that some day, in chopping, the tree would fall upon and + crush him as it did his father the day they brought him back to the camp + on a litter of pine boughs. + </p> + <p> + One day the gang boss noticed a tree that Dallas had left standing in a + most unwoodman-like manner in the section which was alloted to him. + </p> + <p> + "What in thunder is that standing there for?" he asked. + </p> + <p> + Dallas raised his eyes to the pine, towering in stern dignity a hundred + feet above them. + </p> + <p> + "Well," he said, feebly, "I noticed it, but kind-a left it t' the last." + </p> + <p> + "Cut it down to-morrow," was the response. + </p> + <p> + The wind was rising, and the tree muttered savagely. Luther thought it + sounded like a menace, and turned pale. No trouble has yet been found that + will keep a man awake in the keen air of the pineries after he has been + swinging his axe all day, but the sleep of the chopper was so broken with + disturbing dreams that night that the beads gathered on his brow, and + twice he cried aloud. He ate his coarse flap-jacks in the morning and + escaped from the smoky shanty as soon as he could. + </p> + <p> + "It'll bring bad luck, I'm afraid," he muttered as he went to get his axe + from the rack. He was as fond of his axe as a soldier of his musket, but + to-day he shouldered it with reluctance. He felt like a man with his + destiny before him. The tree stood like a sentinel. He raised his axe, + once, twice, a dozen times, but could not bring himself to make a cut in + the bark. He walked backward a few steps and looked up. The funereal green + seemed to grow darker and darker till it became black. It was the + embodiment of sorrow. Was it not shaking giant arms at him? Did it not cry + out in angry challenge? Luther did not try to laugh at his fears; he had + never seen any humor in life. A gust of wind had someway crept through the + dense barricade of foliage that flanked the clearing, and struck him with + an icy chill. He looked at the sky: the day was advancing rapidly. He went + at his work with an energy as determined as despair. The axe in his + practiced hand made clean straight cuts in the trunk, now on this side, + now on that. His task was not an easy one, but he finished it with + wonderful expedition. After the chopping was finished, the tree stood firm + a moment; then, as the tensely strained fibres began a weird moaning, he + sprang aside, and stood waiting. In the distance he saw two men hewing a + log. The axe-man sent them a shout and threw up his arms for them to look. + </p> + <p> + The tree stood out clear and beautiful against the gray sky; the men + ceased their work and watched it. The vibrations became more violent, and + the sounds they produced grew louder and louder till they reached a shrill + wild cry. There came a pause; then a deep shuddering groan. The topmost + branches began to move slowly, the whole stately bulk swayed, and then + shot toward the ground. The gigantic trunk bounded from the stump, + recoiled like a cannon, crashed down, and lay conquered, with a roar as of + an earthquake, in a cloud of flying twigs and chips. + </p> + <p> + When the dust had cleared away, the men at the log on the outside of the + clearing could not see Luther. They ran to the spot, and found him lying + on the ground with his chest crushed in. His fearful eyes had not rightly + calculated the distance from the stump to the top of the pine, nor rightly + weighed the power of the massed branches, and so, standing spell-bound, + watching the descending trunk as one might watch his Nemesis, the rebound + came and left him lying worse than dead. + </p> + <p> + Three months later, when the logs, lopped of their branches, drifted down + the streams, the woodman, a human log lopped of his strength, drifted to a + great city. A change, the doctor said, might prolong his life. The + lumbermen made up a purse, and he started out, not very definitely knowing + his destination. He had a sister, much younger than himself, who at the + age of sixteen had married and gone, he believed, to Chicago. That was + years ago, but he had an idea that he might find her. He was not troubled + by his lack of resources: he did not believe that any man would want for a + meal unless he were "shiftless." He had always been able to turn his hand + to something. + </p> + <p> + He felt too ill from the jostling of the cars to notice much of anything + on the journey. The dizzy scenes whirling past made him faint, and he was + glad to lie with closed eyes. He imagined that his little sister in her + pink calico frock and bare feet (as he remembered her) would be at the + station to meet him. "Oh, Lu!" she would call from some hiding-place, and + he would go and find her. + </p> + <p> + The conductor stopped by Luther's seat and said that they were in the city + at last; but it seemed to the sick man as if they went miles after that, + with a multitude of twinkling lights on one side and a blank darkness that + they told him was the lake on the other. The conductor again stopped by + his seat. + </p> + <p> + "Well, my man," said he, "how are you feel-ing?" + </p> + <p> + Luther, the possessor of the toughest muscles in the gang, felt a sick + man's irritation at the tone of pity. + </p> + <p> + "Oh, I'm all right!" he said, gruffly, and shook off the assistance the + conductor tried to offer with his overcoat. "I'm going to my sister's," he + explained, in answer to the inquiry as to where he was going. The man, + somewhat piqued at the spirit in which his overtures were met, left him, + and Luther stepped on to the platform. There was a long vista of + semi-light, down which crowds of people walked and baggagemen rushed. The + building, if it deserved the name, seemed a ruin, and through the arched + doors Luther could see men—hackmen—dancing and howling like + dervishes. Trains were coming and going, and the whistles and bells kept + up a ceaseless clangor. Luther, with his small satchel and uncouth dress, + slouched by the crowd unnoticed, and reached the street. He walked amid + such an illumination as he had never dreamed of, and paused half blinded + in the glare of a broad sheet of electric light that filled a pillared + entrance into which many people passed. He looked about him. Above on + every side rose great, many-windowed buildings; on the street the cars and + carriages thronged, and jostling crowds dashed headlong among the + vehicles. After a time he turned down a street that seemed to him a + pandemonium filled with madmen. It went to his head like wine, and hardly + left him the presence of mind to sustain a quiet exterior. The wind was + laden with a penetrating moisture that chilled him as the dry icy breezes + from Huron never had done, and the pain in his lungs made him faint and + dizzy. He wondered if his red-cheeked little sister could live in one of + those vast, impregnable buildings. He thought of stopping some of those + serious-looking men and asking them if they knew her, but he could not + muster up the courage. The distressing experience that comes to almost + every one some time in life, of losing all identity in the universal + humanity, was becoming his. The tears began to roll down his wasted face + from loneliness and exhaustion. He grew hungry with longing for the dirty + but familiar cabins of the camp, and staggered along with eyes half + closed, conjuring visions of the warm interiors, the leaping fires, the + groups of laughing men seen dimly through clouds of tobacco smoke. + </p> + <p> + A delicious scent of coffee met his hungry sense and made him really think + he was taking the savory black draught from his familiar tin cup; but the + muddy streets, the blinding lights, the cruel, rushing people, were still + there. The buildings, however, now became different. They were lower and + meaner, with dirty windows. Women laughing loudly crowded about the doors, + and the establishments seemed to be equally divided between + saloon-keepers, pawnbrokers, and dealers in second-hand clothes. Luther + wondered where they all drew their support from. Upon one signboard he + read, "Lodgings 10 cents to 50 cents. A Square Meal for 15 cents," and, + thankful for some haven, entered. Here he spent his first night and other + nights, while his purse dwindled and his strength waned. At last he got a + man in a drug store to search the directory for his sister's residence. + They found a name he took to be his brother-in-law's. It was two days + later when he found the address—a great many-storied mansion on one + of the southern boulevards—and found also that his search had been + in vain. Sore and faint, he staggered back to his miserable shelter, only + to arise feverish and ill in the morning. He frequented the great shop + doors, thronged with brilliantly dressed ladies, and watched to see if his + little sister might not dash up in one of those satin-lined coaches and + take him where he would be warm and safe and would sleep undisturbed by + drunken, ribald songs and loathsome surroundings. There were days when he + almost forgot his name, and, striving to remember, would lose his senses + for a moment and drift back to the harmonious solitudes of the North and + breathe the resin-scented frosty atmosphere. He grew terrified at the + blood he coughed from his lacerated lungs, and wondered bitterly why the + boys did not come to take him home. + </p> + <p> + One day, as he painfully dragged himself down a residence street, he tried + to collect his thoughts and form some plan for the future. He had no + trade, understood no handiwork: he could fell trees! He looked at the + gaunt, scrawny, transplanted specimens that met his eye, and gave himself + up to the homesickness that filled his soul. He slept that night in the + shelter of a stable, and spent his last money in the morning for a + biscuit. + </p> + <p> + He traveled many miles that afternoon looking for something to which he + might turn his hand. Once he got permission to carry a hod for half an + hour. At the end of that time he fainted. When he recovered, the foreman + paid him twenty-five cents. "For God's sake, man, go home," he said. + Luther stared at him with a white face and went on. + </p> + <p> + There came days when he so forgot his native dignity as to beg. He seldom + received anything; he was referred to various charitable institutions + whose existence he had never heard of. + </p> + <p> + One morning, when a pall of smoke enveloped the city and the odors of + coal-gas refused to lift their nauseating poison through the heavy air, + Luther, chilled with dew and famished, awoke to a happier life. The + loneliness at his heart was gone. The feeling of hopeless imprisonment + that the miles and miles of streets had terrified him with gave place to + one of freedom and exaltation. Above him he heard the rasping of pine + boughs; his feet trod on a rebounding mat of decay; the sky was as coldly + blue as the bosom of Huron. He walked as if on ether, singing a senseless + jargon the woodmen had aroused the echoes with: + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Hi yi halloo! + The owl sees you! + Look what you do! + Hi yi halloo!" +</pre> + <p> + Swung over his shoulder was a stick he had used to assist his limping + gait, but now transformed into the beloved axe. He would reach the + clearing soon, he thought, and strode on like a giant, while people + hurried from his path. Suddenly a smooth trunk, stripped of its bark and + bleached by weather, arose before him. + </p> + <p> + "Hi yi halloo!" High went the wasted arm—crash!—a broken + staff, a jingle of wires, a maddened, shouting man the centre of a group + of amused spectators! 'A few moments later, four broad-shouldered men in + blue had him in their grasp, pinioned and guarded, clattering over the + noisy streets behind two spirited horses. They drew after them a troop of + noisy, jeering boys, who danced about the wagon like a swirl of autumn + leaves. Then came a halt, and Luther was dragged up the steps of a square + brick building with a belfry on the top. They entered a large bare room + with benches ranged about the walls, and brought him before a man at a + desk. + </p> + <p> + "What is your name?" asked the man at the desk. + </p> + <p> + "Hi yi halloo!" said Luther. + </p> + <p> + "He's drunk, sergeant," said one of the men in blue, and the axe-man was + led into the basement. He was conscious of an involuntary resistance, a + short struggle, and a final shock of pain—then oblivion. + </p> + <p> + The chopper awoke to the realization of three stone walls and an iron + grating in front. Through this he looked out upon a stone flooring across + which was a row of similar apartments. He neither knew nor cared where he + was. The feeling of imprisonment was no greater than he had felt on the + endless, cheerless streets. He laid himself on the bench that ran along a + side wall, and, closing his eyes, listened to the babble of the clear + stream and the thunder of the "drive" on its journey. How the logs hurried + and jostled! crushing, whirling, ducking, with the merry lads leaping + about them with shouts and laughter. Suddenly he was recalled by a voice. + Some one handed a narrow tin cup full of coffee and a thick slice of bread + through the grating. Across the way he dimly saw a man eating a similar + slice of bread. Men in other compartments were swearing and singing, He + knew these now for the voices he had heard in his dreams. He tried to + force some of the bread down his parched and swollen throat, but failed; + the coffee strangled him, and he threw himself upon the bench. + </p> + <p> + The forest again, the night-wind, the whistle of the axe through the air! + Once when he opened his eyes he found it dark! It would soon be time to go + to work. He fancied there would be hoarfrost on the trees in the morning. + How close the cabin seemed! Ha!—here came his little sister. Her + voice sounded like the wind on a spring morning. How loud it swelled now! + "Lu! Lu!" she cried. + </p> + <p> + The next morning the lock-up keeper opened the cell door. Luther lay with + his head in a pool of blood. His soul had escaped from the thrall of the + forest. + </p> + <p> + "Well, well!" said the little fat police justice, when he was told of it. + "We ought to have a doctor around to look after such cases." + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Michigan Man, by Elia W. 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Peattie + +Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23176] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MICHIGAN MAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +A MICHIGAN MAN + +By Elia W. Peattie + +Copyright, 1891, by J. B. Lippincott & Co + + +A pine forest is nature's expression of solemnity and solitude. +Sunlight, rivers, cascades, people, music, laughter, or dancing could +not make it gay. With its unceasing reverberations and its eternal +shadows, it is as awful and as holy as a cathedral. + +Thirty good fellows working together by day and drinking together by +night can keep up but a moody imitation of jollity. Spend twenty-five +of your forty years, as Luther Dallas did, in this perennial gloom, and +your soul--that which enjoys, aspires, competes--will be drugged as deep +as if you had quaffed the cup of oblivion. Luther Dallas was counted one +of the most experienced axe-men in the northern camps. He could fell +a tree with the swift surety of an executioner, and in revenge for his +many arborai murders the woodland had taken captive his mind, captured +and chained it as Prospero did Ariel. The resounding footsteps of +Progress driven on so mercilessly in this mad age could not reach his +fastness. It did not concern him that men were thinking, investigating, +inventing. His senses responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; +a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented +him as the sound of the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of +the ocean to the mariner were the resinous scents of the forest to him. +Like a sailor, too, he had his superstitions. He had a presentiment that +he was to die by one of these trees--that some day, in chopping, the +tree would fall upon and crush him as it did his father the day they +brought him back to the camp on a litter of pine boughs. + +One day the gang boss noticed a tree that Dallas had left standing in a +most unwoodman-like manner in the section which was alloted to him. + +"What in thunder is that standing there for?" he asked. + +Dallas raised his eyes to the pine, towering in stern dignity a hundred +feet above them. + +"Well," he said, feebly, "I noticed it, but kind-a left it t' the last." + +"Cut it down to-morrow," was the response. + +The wind was rising, and the tree muttered savagely. Luther thought it +sounded like a menace, and turned pale. No trouble has yet been found +that will keep a man awake in the keen air of the pineries after he +has been swinging his axe all day, but the sleep of the chopper was so +broken with disturbing dreams that night that the beads gathered on +his brow, and twice he cried aloud. He ate his coarse flap-jacks in the +morning and escaped from the smoky shanty as soon as he could. + +"It'll bring bad luck, I'm afraid," he muttered as he went to get his +axe from the rack. He was as fond of his axe as a soldier of his musket, +but to-day he shouldered it with reluctance. He felt like a man with his +destiny before him. The tree stood like a sentinel. He raised his axe, +once, twice, a dozen times, but could not bring himself to make a cut +in the bark. He walked backward a few steps and looked up. The funereal +green seemed to grow darker and darker till it became black. It was the +embodiment of sorrow. Was it not shaking giant arms at him? Did it not +cry out in angry challenge? Luther did not try to laugh at his fears; +he had never seen any humor in life. A gust of wind had someway crept +through the dense barricade of foliage that flanked the clearing, +and struck him with an icy chill. He looked at the sky: the day was +advancing rapidly. He went at his work with an energy as determined as +despair. The axe in his practiced hand made clean straight cuts in the +trunk, now on this side, now on that. His task was not an easy one, +but he finished it with wonderful expedition. After the chopping was +finished, the tree stood firm a moment; then, as the tensely strained +fibres began a weird moaning, he sprang aside, and stood waiting. In the +distance he saw two men hewing a log. The axe-man sent them a shout and +threw up his arms for them to look. + +The tree stood out clear and beautiful against the gray sky; the men +ceased their work and watched it. The vibrations became more violent, +and the sounds they produced grew louder and louder till they reached a +shrill wild cry. There came a pause; then a deep shuddering groan. The +topmost branches began to move slowly, the whole stately bulk swayed, +and then shot toward the ground. The gigantic trunk bounded from the +stump, recoiled like a cannon, crashed down, and lay conquered, with a +roar as of an earthquake, in a cloud of flying twigs and chips. + +When the dust had cleared away, the men at the log on the outside of the +clearing could not see Luther. They ran to the spot, and found him +lying on the ground with his chest crushed in. His fearful eyes had not +rightly calculated the distance from the stump to the top of the pine, +nor rightly weighed the power of the massed branches, and so, standing +spell-bound, watching the descending trunk as one might watch his +Nemesis, the rebound came and left him lying worse than dead. + +Three months later, when the logs, lopped of their branches, drifted +down the streams, the woodman, a human log lopped of his strength, +drifted to a great city. A change, the doctor said, might prolong +his life. The lumbermen made up a purse, and he started out, not very +definitely knowing his destination. He had a sister, much younger than +himself, who at the age of sixteen had married and gone, he believed, to +Chicago. That was years ago, but he had an idea that he might find her. +He was not troubled by his lack of resources: he did not believe that +any man would want for a meal unless he were "shiftless." He had always +been able to turn his hand to something. + +He felt too ill from the jostling of the cars to notice much of anything +on the journey. The dizzy scenes whirling past made him faint, and he +was glad to lie with closed eyes. He imagined that his little sister in +her pink calico frock and bare feet (as he remembered her) would be +at the station to meet him. "Oh, Lu!" she would call from some +hiding-place, and he would go and find her. + +The conductor stopped by Luther's seat and said that they were in the +city at last; but it seemed to the sick man as if they went miles after +that, with a multitude of twinkling lights on one side and a blank +darkness that they told him was the lake on the other. The conductor +again stopped by his seat. + +"Well, my man," said he, "how are you feel-ing?" + +Luther, the possessor of the toughest muscles in the gang, felt a sick +man's irritation at the tone of pity. + +"Oh, I'm all right!" he said, gruffly, and shook off the assistance the +conductor tried to offer with his overcoat. "I'm going to my sister's," +he explained, in answer to the inquiry as to where he was going. The +man, somewhat piqued at the spirit in which his overtures were met, left +him, and Luther stepped on to the platform. There was a long vista of +semi-light, down which crowds of people walked and baggagemen rushed. +The building, if it deserved the name, seemed a ruin, and through the +arched doors Luther could see men--hackmen--dancing and howling like +dervishes. Trains were coming and going, and the whistles and bells +kept up a ceaseless clangor. Luther, with his small satchel and uncouth +dress, slouched by the crowd unnoticed, and reached the street. He +walked amid such an illumination as he had never dreamed of, and paused +half blinded in the glare of a broad sheet of electric light that filled +a pillared entrance into which many people passed. He looked about him. +Above on every side rose great, many-windowed buildings; on the street +the cars and carriages thronged, and jostling crowds dashed headlong +among the vehicles. After a time he turned down a street that seemed to +him a pandemonium filled with madmen. It went to his head like wine, and +hardly left him the presence of mind to sustain a quiet exterior. The +wind was laden with a penetrating moisture that chilled him as the dry +icy breezes from Huron never had done, and the pain in his lungs made +him faint and dizzy. He wondered if his red-cheeked little sister could +live in one of those vast, impregnable buildings. He thought of stopping +some of those serious-looking men and asking them if they knew her, +but he could not muster up the courage. The distressing experience that +comes to almost every one some time in life, of losing all identity in +the universal humanity, was becoming his. The tears began to roll down +his wasted face from loneliness and exhaustion. He grew hungry with +longing for the dirty but familiar cabins of the camp, and staggered +along with eyes half closed, conjuring visions of the warm interiors, +the leaping fires, the groups of laughing men seen dimly through clouds +of tobacco smoke. + +A delicious scent of coffee met his hungry sense and made him really +think he was taking the savory black draught from his familiar tin cup; +but the muddy streets, the blinding lights, the cruel, rushing people, +were still there. The buildings, however, now became different. They +were lower and meaner, with dirty windows. Women laughing loudly crowded +about the doors, and the establishments seemed to be equally divided +between saloon-keepers, pawnbrokers, and dealers in second-hand clothes. +Luther wondered where they all drew their support from. Upon one +signboard he read, "Lodgings 10 cents to 50 cents. A Square Meal for 15 +cents," and, thankful for some haven, entered. Here he spent his first +night and other nights, while his purse dwindled and his strength waned. +At last he got a man in a drug store to search the directory for +his sister's residence. They found a name he took to be his +brother-in-law's. It was two days later when he found the address--a +great many-storied mansion on one of the southern boulevards--and found +also that his search had been in vain. Sore and faint, he staggered back +to his miserable shelter, only to arise feverish and ill in the morning. +He frequented the great shop doors, thronged with brilliantly dressed +ladies, and watched to see if his little sister might not dash up in +one of those satin-lined coaches and take him where he would be warm and +safe and would sleep undisturbed by drunken, ribald songs and loathsome +surroundings. There were days when he almost forgot his name, and, +striving to remember, would lose his senses for a moment and drift back +to the harmonious solitudes of the North and breathe the resin-scented +frosty atmosphere. He grew terrified at the blood he coughed from his +lacerated lungs, and wondered bitterly why the boys did not come to take +him home. + +One day, as he painfully dragged himself down a residence street, he +tried to collect his thoughts and form some plan for the future. He had +no trade, understood no handiwork: he could fell trees! He looked at +the gaunt, scrawny, transplanted specimens that met his eye, and gave +himself up to the homesickness that filled his soul. He slept that night +in the shelter of a stable, and spent his last money in the morning for +a biscuit. + +He traveled many miles that afternoon looking for something to which he +might turn his hand. Once he got permission to carry a hod for half an +hour. At the end of that time he fainted. When he recovered, the foreman +paid him twenty-five cents. "For God's sake, man, go home," he said. +Luther stared at him with a white face and went on. + +There came days when he so forgot his native dignity as to beg. +He seldom received anything; he was referred to various charitable +institutions whose existence he had never heard of. + +One morning, when a pall of smoke enveloped the city and the odors of +coal-gas refused to lift their nauseating poison through the heavy air, +Luther, chilled with dew and famished, awoke to a happier life. The +loneliness at his heart was gone. The feeling of hopeless imprisonment +that the miles and miles of streets had terrified him with gave place +to one of freedom and exaltation. Above him he heard the rasping of +pine boughs; his feet trod on a rebounding mat of decay; the sky was as +coldly blue as the bosom of Huron. He walked as if on ether, singing a +senseless jargon the woodmen had aroused the echoes with: + + "Hi yi halloo! + The owl sees you! + Look what you do! + Hi yi halloo!" + +Swung over his shoulder was a stick he had used to assist his limping +gait, but now transformed into the beloved axe. He would reach the +clearing soon, he thought, and strode on like a giant, while people +hurried from his path. Suddenly a smooth trunk, stripped of its bark and +bleached by weather, arose before him. + +"Hi yi halloo!" High went the wasted arm--crash!--a broken staff, a +jingle of wires, a maddened, shouting man the centre of a group of +amused spectators! 'A few moments later, four broad-shouldered men in +blue had him in their grasp, pinioned and guarded, clattering over the +noisy streets behind two spirited horses. They drew after them a troop +of noisy, jeering boys, who danced about the wagon like a swirl of +autumn leaves. Then came a halt, and Luther was dragged up the steps of +a square brick building with a belfry on the top. They entered a large +bare room with benches ranged about the walls, and brought him before a +man at a desk. + +"What is your name?" asked the man at the desk. + +"Hi yi halloo!" said Luther. + +"He's drunk, sergeant," said one of the men in blue, and the axe-man was +led into the basement. He was conscious of an involuntary resistance, a +short struggle, and a final shock of pain--then oblivion. + +The chopper awoke to the realization of three stone walls and an iron +grating in front. Through this he looked out upon a stone flooring +across which was a row of similar apartments. He neither knew nor cared +where he was. The feeling of imprisonment was no greater than he had +felt on the endless, cheerless streets. He laid himself on the bench +that ran along a side wall, and, closing his eyes, listened to the +babble of the clear stream and the thunder of the "drive" on its +journey. How the logs hurried and jostled! crushing, whirling, ducking, +with the merry lads leaping about them with shouts and laughter. +Suddenly he was recalled by a voice. Some one handed a narrow tin cup +full of coffee and a thick slice of bread through the grating. Across +the way he dimly saw a man eating a similar slice of bread. Men in other +compartments were swearing and singing, He knew these now for the voices +he had heard in his dreams. He tried to force some of the bread down his +parched and swollen throat, but failed; the coffee strangled him, and he +threw himself upon the bench. + +The forest again, the night-wind, the whistle of the axe through the +air! Once when he opened his eyes he found it dark! It would soon be +time to go to work. He fancied there would be hoarfrost on the trees +in the morning. How close the cabin seemed! Ha!--here came his little +sister. Her voice sounded like the wind on a spring morning. How loud it +swelled now! "Lu! Lu!" she cried. + +The next morning the lock-up keeper opened the cell door. Luther lay +with his head in a pool of blood. His soul had escaped from the thrall +of the forest. + +"Well, well!" said the little fat police justice, when he was told of +it. "We ought to have a doctor around to look after such cases." + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Michigan Man, by Elia W. 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