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Lumberjack Lore "The lumberjack had a language all his own. It was a rough language, and some of it was lost because it was unprintable. It was a man's language. He lived in a man's world. Women had no part of it in the early logging camps. There were no women cooks. It was only after the spring break-up that there was any social life or any drinking. An Irish lumberjack was brought into a hospital in the early logging days with a few broken ribs. The nurse, full of sympathy, asked him how it happened. He replied, 'Well, Sister, I'll tell you how the whole thing happened.You see I was up in the woods a-loading. Once cold morning when I was sending up a big burly schoolmarm on fourth tier, I see she was going to cannon, so I glams into it to cut her back when the bitch broke and she comes and caves in a couple of my slats.' To the uninitiated, lumberjack lingo sounds like so much doubletalk. Actually it's quite simple. The worker was loading a big forked log onto a sleigh full of logs. When he saw that it was going to upend, he tried to hold it back, then the chain broke. The log fell on him and broke a couple of his ribs." Excerpt from:
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