Six Whistles

DESCRIPTION: "Six whisstles, six again -- the fatal call" which makes those who hear "Ask, 'What poor devil's got it now?'" Bill, a married man with children, is the dead man "the first this month." The loggers wonder who will be next
AUTHOR: Rona Morris Workman (source: Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: logger lumbering death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 68, "Six Whistles" (1 text)
File: BeLo068

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