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Higgins A Man's Christian By: Norman Duncan (1871-1916) |
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HIGGINS A MAN'S CHRISTIAN BY NORMAN DUNCAN HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON M C M I X
BOOKS BY NORMAN DUNCAN DR. GRENFELL'S PARISH: A Tract in Description
of the Deep Sea Mission Work GOING DOWN PROM JERUSALEM: The Narrative of a Journey Net $1.50 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF: A Book of Short Stories 1.50 THE CRUISE OF THE 'SHINING LIGHT': A Novel of the Sea 1.50 DOCTOR LUKE OF THE 'LABRADOR': A Novel THE SUITABLE CHILD: A Christmas Story THE MOTHER: A Short Novel THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY TOPSAIL: A Story for Boys THE WAY OF THE SEA: A Book of Short Stories THE SOUL OF THE STREET: A Book of Short Stories HIGGINS A MAN'S CHRISTIAN .50 HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, N. Y. Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. Published November, 1909.
CONTENTS Chapter Page
I. HELL BENT 1
II. THE PILOT OF SOULS 4
III. IN THE SNAKE ROOM 8
IV. THE CLOTH IN QUEER PLACES 11
V. JACK IN CAMP 20
VI. "TO THE TALL TIMBER!" 25
VII. ROBBING THE BLIND 32
VIII. TOUCHING PITCH 43
IX. IN SPITE OF LAUGHTER 54
X. THE VOICE OF THE LORD 57
XI. FIST PLAY 65
XII. MAKING THE GRADE 72
XIII. STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER 78
XIV. THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT 85
XV. CAUSE AND EFFECT 97
XVI. THE WAGES OF SACRIFICE 109
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... Continue reading book >>
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