Just because he's slow to wrath,
don't you get it in your head that he's afraid, or that he can't
settle your hash in five minutes."
Nan was greatly disturbed to hear so many references to fistic
encounters and fighting of all sorts. These men of the woods
seemed to be possessed of wild and unruly passions. What she
heard the boys say caused her to believe that most of the spare
time of the men in the lumber camps was spent in personal
encounters.
"No, no, deary. They aren't so bad as they sound," Aunt Kate
told her, comfortably. "Lots of nice men work in the camps all
their lives and never fight. Look at your Uncle Henry."
But Nan remembered the "mess of words" (as he called it) that
Uncle Henry had had with Gedney Raffer on the railroad station
platform at the Forks, and she was afraid that even her aunt did
not look with the same horror on a quarrel that Nan herself did.
The girl from Tillbury had a chance to see just what a lumber
camp was like, and what the crew were like, on the fourth day
after her arrival at her Uncle Henry's house. The weather was
then pronounced settled, and word came for the two young men, Tom
and Rafe, to report at Blackton's camp the next morning, prepared
to go to work.
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