By the Banks of the Manistee

DESCRIPTION: "I'm an old jack from the pine-wood track By the banks of the Manistee" who has logged with all sorts -- but the best loggers are those who came from Maine and Quebec. He tells tales from before the forests were logged out, and still dreams of that time
AUTHOR: Judge George Angus Belding (source: Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: logger lumbering fight death trick drink
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 30, "By the Banks of the Manistee" (1 text)
Roud #18194
File: BeLo030

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