 | Truman B. Fox - Saginaw River Valley (Mich.) - 1868 - 100 pages
...catch. There is plenty of this to be had, if there were time to take it, for the woods are still full of squirrels, rabbits, coons, deer, and black bears,..."nourishment," they get, on an average, about $1 per day for their labor. The whole gain of a lumberman in his winter's work is about $100, which a new suit of... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...are still full of squirrels, rabbits, coons, deer, and black bears, 90 The Lumber Region of Michigan. whose flesh is not unpalatable : the streams, too,...their " nourishment," they get, on an average, about a dollar a day for their labor. The whole gain of a lumberman, in his winter's work, is about a hundred... | |
 | Michael A. Leeson, Damon Clark - Saginaw County (Mich.) - 1881 - 974 pages
...take it, for the woods are still full of squirrels, rabbits, coons, deer, and black bears, whose rlesh is not unpalatable; the streams, too, are full of...their 'nourishment,' they get, on an average, about one dollar per day for their labor. The whole gain of a lumberman in his winter's hard work is about... | |
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... fish, bread and tea, are the most approved articles of diet. Coffee is not generally provided, and the delicacies consist chiefly in the wild game which the woodmen themselves may chance to catch. There is plenty of this to be had, if there were time... 