The loggerran through an open gateway, paused to turn and again fire at his pursuers; then he ran between two frame dwellings to the open street.
Why the Loggers Organized The condition of the logger previous to the period of organization beggars description.
Production for profit always strikes the logger with the full force of objective observation.
For years the logger and mill hand had fought against the unrestrained greed of the lumber interests.
Illustration: A Logger of the Pacific Northwest This is a type of the men who work in the "long log" region of the West coast.
No blankets were furnished, each logger being compelled to supply his own.
Dwarfed to ant-like insignificance by the verdant immensity around him, the logger toils daily with ax, saw and cable.
As a rule the logger of the Northwest follows the woods to the exclusion of all other employment.
One logger was even burned to death while locked in a small iron-barred shack that had been dignified with the title of "jail.
This fact alone speaks volumes for the long-suffering patience of the logger and for his desire to settle his problems by peaceable means wherever possible.
And always the logger knows in his heart that this is not done that people may have lumber for their needs, but rather that some overfed parasite may first add to his holy dividends.
The problem of the logger is that of the casual laborer in general.
It must have been the glancing blow from the fist of the logger that gave one of the gentlemen his fiendish inspiration.
As soon as the chopped-off portion falls, the trunk vibrates rapidly from side to side sometimes shaking the logger to certain death below.
A logger then once counted one hundred and fifty men drunk in a single hotel of a town of twelve hundred inhabitants where fourteen other bar-rooms heartily flourished.
I have heard of one kindly logger who dispatches a team to the nearest town every Monday morning to gather up his stupefied lumber-jacks from the bar-room floors and snake-rooms and haul them into the woods.
You're all right, Pilot," the logger agreed, clapping the preacher on the back.
Just as Josh said, the logger had managed to gain the shelter of the back wall of the shack.
But no doubt he had discovered the logger who was advancing toward the rear of the shack, his arms filled with fuel; and it would have to be a very dull person who could not guess what his object must be.
Then they watched again, while the logger went through with a lot of what seemed to George utterly useless actions, fixing the kindling up a little better.
George was heard to mutter; as the logger leaned over to apply the little flame, which he had been shielding with both hands, after the manner of an old smoker.
At any rate, the logger kept right on creeping toward the shack, and it began to look as though he were bound to get there, too.
The boy is going to be a great logger some day," he would declare with fatherly pride.
Illustration] Paul Bunyan had his setbacks the same as every loggeronly his were worse.
The logger nodded as if he concurred in this, and, taking a little book from his pocket, he turned it over, wrinkling his brows while Nasmyth watched him with a smile.
The logger was said to be a hard man, and in some respects this was certainly the case; but a faint flush crept into his grim face.
When the logger moved away the weary man crossed over to his bunk.
It was the expected that happened; a representative of law and order threatened to lock up both pedestrians in the city jail--for the logger dragged the minister in his zig-zag course and both appeared drunken.
It happened that while the proprietor was a man whose record as a logger was one of the best in the state, being able to get out his logs where others would fail, yet his morals were far below his business reputation.
It took three men to get the logger into the car, and with the beginning of the journey the real troubles of the temperance worker began.
Mr. Higgins had held services in the camp, and the logger requested him to baptize their baby when he next visited them.
Kettle River drive was more fruitful than preacher orlogger dreamed.
From one side of the walk to the other the powerful logger dragged the husky preacher, and as they continued through the streets the blasphemy and filth flowed on.
When Mr. Higgins went into the office that night the proprietor was there, and as he entered the loggerlooked up and said: "That was pretty blank plain, Pilot.
He tells an ugly story, which may serve as a pendant to that of the bear's breakfast on live beef, of what happened to a logger named Smith, when on his way to join a timbering party in the woods.
Mr. Logger and Dora Meadows made up the quartette, and as she was tired with her journey, and the conversation both at table and in the drawing-room was literary and political, she was thankful to be dismissed to her room at an early hour.
When the ladies withdrew, Mr. Loggeralmost immediately followed, and then Mr. Cecil Burleigh was himself again.
Dora would have gone too, but as Mr. Logger made no sign of moving, my lady intimated that she must remain.
She wrote to Mr. Logger to recommend a publisher, and to ask how proper payment could be assured to a young and unknown author.
After breakfast the young ladies took Mr. Logger out for a salubrious airing across the heath.
When they entered the drawing-room my lady and Mr. Loggerwere deep in a report of the emigration commission.
His plainness is lost in what Mr. Logger calls his power of countenance," said she.
Besides, Mr. Logger told her that the cleverest articles were written by sprightly young men fresh from college.
Mr. Logger shook his head, and said it was the London gas.
Mr. Loggerfavored the ladies with another reading on Sunday afternoon--an essay on sermons, and twice as long as one.
Some logger or hunter may have found them and taken them to our cabin.
The old logger staggered to his feet, helped by some of the men from Cedar Camp, and looked about him.
William Auld had put up with my permission on the occasion of his last visit, a box which I never saw a logger pass without patronising if he noticed it.
Paul Bunyan had his setbacks the same as every logger only his were worse.
Consequently every logger puts into the two or three weeks of freshet water a feverish activity which shall carry his product through before the ebb.
Plenty which could be cut and travoyed directly to the banking ground lay exactly along the bank of the stream; but every logger possessed of a tract of timber tries each year to get in some that is easy to handle and some that is difficult.
Aside from the fact that the danger of discovery is practically zero in so wild and distant a country, it is fairly well established that the old-time logger found these two individuals susceptible to the gentle art of "sugaring.
Harrington Bland; the logger said that with a twinkle in his eye, a chuckle as of inner amusement.
About ten o'clock that morning a logger came up to the works on the hill.
The light of a flash-lamp revealed a logger from the Carr settlement below.
In the growing dawn, Hollister and the logger went down through woods thick with smoke.
Yet the logger dreams always of saving his money, of becoming a timber king, of setting himself up in some business--knowing all the while that he is like a child with pennies in his hand, unhappy until they are spent.
And Amos thought he saw more than that, as he continued to watch the burly former logger out of the tail of his eye.
Of course, both the other boys laughed heartily at the idea of that husky logger being whipped by a mild-mannered, inoffensive man half his size.
Used to be logger onct; knowed Amos Simmons, too, when I worked fur ther Woodstock Company a cupple o’ years back.
When he handed this over to Gabe the big ex-logger sniffed at it with what was intended to be an expression of bliss on his bearded face, rolling his eyes at the same time heavenward to signify his thanks.
He lifted the logger clear of the wharf, hoisted him to the level of his breast, and heaved him down the slip as one would throw a sack of bran.
One uh them Hungry Bay shingle-bolt cutters's in camp," the logger answered.
Once a drunken logger shouldered his way into the kitchen to leer unpleasantly at Stella, and, himself inflamed by liquor and the affront, Charlie Benton beat the man until his face was a mass of bloody bruises.
It was common enough in her experience, that temporary embarrassment of a logger before her.
From her after deck a man hailed thelogger sharply, and when his call was unheeded, he ran lightly up the slip.
He was, in effect, "sizing her up" just as he would have looked casually over a logger asking him for a job.
Stella looked out over the smoky lake and back at the logger again, a sudden resolution born of intolerable uncertainty, of a feeling that she could only characterize as fear, sprang full-fledged into her mind.
She remembered Charlie's fury at the logger who started Matt the cook on his spree, and she wondered at this relaxation, but it was not in her province, and she made no comment.
His pleasant, freckled face hovered before her until she fell asleep, and in her sleep she dreamed again of him throwing that drunken logger down the Hot Springs slip.
The blow stretched the logger on his back, with blood streaming from both nostrils.
I've noticed that when a loggerstarts working on borrowed capital, he generally goes broke.
Abreast of her a logger came to the broken window with a sack to bar out the frosty air.
But then he's doin' a lot uh things no practicallogger would do.
As she sat there, a man dressed in the blue shirt and mackinaw trousers and high, calked boots of the logger turned in off the road, a burly woodsman that she recognized as one of Jack Fyfe's crew.
Down on the lake the chastised logger stood out in his boat, resting once on his oars to shake a fist at Benton.
The logger is coming to recognize his social responsibility, timber is being utilized as a social heritage to be managed for posterity, and the isolation of the camps has been ended.
They brought the gigantic tasks of the great woods down to manageable proportions and saved many a logger from an inferiority complex.
The logger went into the woods early in the fall, spent the entire winter snow-bound in a lonely camp with other men like-minded with himself, a dozen to a hundred or more of them.
But he never got discouraged, he would still show Noah that A true logger always finished anything he started at.
Even after the logger has taken what he wants, there remains a heavy mass of vegetation which is expensive to clear away.
Still more strange to see him giddily perched upon the logger head itself, under such circumstances.
If after all it turned out that he had shot a cur dog belonging to that terrible poacher and one-time logger Baylay, it was going to make them a tremendous amount of trouble.
The brawny logger had an ax, with a small bundle suspended from the same, slung over his shoulder.
He has been a logger in his time, and one o' the best ever known along the river.
Situated in the heart of the virgin forest, with the ax of the logger still a stranger to the splendid growth of timber, it seemed to offer them a glorious opportunity for spending their fortnight there in the wilderness.
He knew the big logger would have rushed into the shack anyway, even if he had declined to wake the others up.
He was a logger by profession, though he had an extensive experience in prospecting for timber-rights and minerals.
Leave them to it," advised a biglogger with an appreciative grin.
Here we saw the whole of the operations of lumbering from the point where a logger notches a likely tree for cutting to the final moment when Chinese workmen feed the great trunks to the steam saw that hews them into beams and planks.
Having selected a tree, the first logger cuts into it a deep wedge which is to give it direction in its fall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "logger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: forester; indicator; ranger; woodsman
