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been in wet clothes day after day in the rain or river rolling the logs into the creeks then guiding them down the stream. At night we merely rolled ourselves up in a blanket and went to sleep near the fire. As we undid the blanket at dawn next day, steam would be seen rising from our clothes. Sometimes we had to swim across the river on cold frosty mornings with our axes in our belts.
Many of the cedar getters would work like slaves for months, then drink until all their earnings were gone. I remember seeing a man drink a quart of gin, then crawl into the river. In about half an hour's time he was up and drinking again.
All the good cedar was cut with a pit saw. The logs were placed, one at a time, above a pit. One man stood on top of the log while another one was in pit underneath and between them they worked the large saw up and down until the log was out as required.
The Richmond, Tweed and Clarence R. blacks