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    Higgins A Man's Christian
    Higgins A Man's Christian
    Higgins A Man's Christian
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    Higgins A Man's Christian

    By Norman Duncan

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Higgins A Man's Christian - Norman Duncan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Higgins, by Norman Duncan

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Higgins

      A Man's Christian

      Author: Norman Duncan

      Release Date: November 2, 2010 [EBook #34194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIGGINS ***

      Produced by Roger Frank

      HIGGINS

      A MAN’S CHRISTIAN

      BY

      NORMAN DUNCAN

      HARPER & BROTHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      M–C–M–I–X

      BOOKS BY NORMAN DUNCAN

      HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, N. Y.

      Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.

      All rights reserved.

      Published November, 1909.

      TO THE READER

      What this book contains was learned by the writer in the course of two visits with Mr. Higgins in the Minnesota woods–one in the lumber-camps and lumber-towns at midwinter, and again at the time of the drive. Upon both occasions Mr. Higgins was accompanied by his devoted and admirable friend, the Rev. Thomas D. Whittles, to whose suggestions and leading he responded with many a tale of his experiences, some of which are here related. Mr. Whittles was at the same time good enough to permit the writer to draw whatever information might seem necessary from a more extended description of Mr. Higgins’s work, called The Lumber-jack’s Sky Pilot, which he had written.

      HIGGINS

      A MAN’S CHRISTIAN

      HIGGINS

      A MAN’S CHRISTIAN

      I

      HELL BENT

      Twenty thousand of the thirty thousand lumber-jacks and river-pigs of the Minnesota woods are hilariously in pursuit of their own ruin for lack of something better to do in town. They are not nice, enlightened men, of course; the debauch is the traditional diversion–the theme of all the brave tales to which the youngsters of the bunk-houses listen in the lantern-light and dwell upon after dark. The lumber-jacks proceed thus–being fellows of big strength in every physical way–to the uttermost of filth and savagery and fellowship with every abomination. It is done with shouting and laughter and that large good-humor which is bedfellow with the bloodiest brawling, and it has for a bit, no doubt, its amiable aspect; but the merry shouters are presently become like Jimmie the Beast, that low, notorious brute, who, emerging drunk and hungry from a Deer River saloon, robbed a bulldog of his bone and gnawed it himself–or like Damned Soul Jenkins, who goes moaning into the forest, after the spree in town, conceiving himself condemned to roast forever in hell, without hope, nor even the ease which his mother’s prayers might win from a compassionate God.

      They can’t help themselves, it seems. Not all of them, of course; but most.

      II

      THE PILOT OF SOULS

      A big, clean, rosy-cheeked man in a Mackinaw coat and rubber boots–hardly distinguishable from the lumber-jack crew except for his quick step and high glance and fine resolute way–went swiftly through a Deer River saloon toward the snake-room in search of a lad from Toronto who had in the camps besought to be preserved from the vicissitudes of the town.

      There goes the Pilot, said a lumber-jack at the bar. Hello, Pilot!

      ’Lo, Tom!

      Ain’t ye goin’ t’ preach no more at Camp Six?

      Sure, Tom!

      Well–when the hell?

      Week from Thursday, Tom, the vanishing man called back; tell the boys I’m coming.

      Know the Pilot? the lumber-jack asked.

      I nodded.

      Higgins’s job, said he, earnestly, is keepin’ us boys out o’ hell; an’ he’s the only man on the job.

      Of this I had been informed.

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