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were moving ("George, what's that Annas just
were moving ("George, what's that Anna's just
been saying that made you all laugh?  Well I  
been saying that made you all laugh?  Well I  
don't see anything so funny about that.")
don't see anything so funny about that.")
had left St. Albany, Vermont, at fifteen
had left St. Albans, Vermont, at fifteen
and earned his way to Chicago as a deck hand
and earned his way to Chicago as a deck hand
on an Erie Canal boat.  Later when he was offered a  
on an Erie Canal boat.  Later when he was offered a  

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were moving ("George, what's that Anna's just been saying that made you all laugh? Well I don't see anything so funny about that.") had left St. Albans, Vermont, at fifteen and earned his way to Chicago as a deck hand on an Erie Canal boat. Later when he was offered a loan by a man who thought he was a likely looking lad who deserved help, he turned it down, saying that as a minor, his signature would have no value. Two generations later the axes and saws were still filling the virgin timberlands. Every morning the logging train left for the woods on the narrow gauge Company railroad; every spring, logs were driven down the river and, all year 'round the men rode the jams below the mill and sent the logs up the jack ladder to the log deck where they waited for this town on the carriage as it docked for the band saw. The lumber was piled in the yards and on the docks and the Indians came down from