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the old boy, "None of you are right. The actual truth is that he didn't have a god-damned cent and he'd lost his basket!"

These stories were all told as gospel truth, but I believe some of them were phonies. But they were good!

Another about Jack Leary was when O.B. Brown sent him as a caretaker to his mountain retreat and sent some friends up, who had a pretty daughter. Jack was out in a rowboat with them one day and was supposed to be steering while the daughter rowed. Jack ran them aground and told the old man, if he were steering by the same compass Jack was, he'd run aground too!

We had Sawyer for lunch at the Costello House and the dining room was right on the street. Two drunken lumberjacks started a fight right outside the window, and one shoved the other off into the gutter. 80% of the town are French and most of them are Brown Co. employees including a lot of lumbermen.

We finally registered at the Costello House, were handed our keys by the clerk and carried our own bags up two flights of stairs to our room. Not even a bell hop! We called Roy and he said we should contact Abbott, the power engineer, also. We found him not at the office, so late in the afternoon we settled down for a while in the Costello grill for a few ales. During that sojourn we saw a parade of drunken lumberjacks through the grill that was quite arresting. The drunken bartender couldn't throw one out but the buxom barmaid did and with no uncertainty. Finally Neil got Abbott on the phone and he stopped by at

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