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  • noun best regards

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  • adjective being three more than seventy

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  • The Winter of Seventy-Three

    (Lawrence Gorman)

    1 All men who follow the lumber woods, attention pay to me,

    To an interesting ditty, which I now sing unto thee.

    I'll tell you what we do endure. both rain and sleet and cold.

    And hardship that we undergo. most bitter to behold.

    2 On the twentieth of October, in the year of seventy-three,

    I left my native island and sailed for Miramichi;

    I hired the day I landed there to work in Snowball's mill,

    A large three-story building at the foot of Sawdust Hill.

    3 Before I hired I asked the Boss, `What wages do you pay?'

    He cleared his head and answered, saying, `Seven shillings per day.'

    `Twas four weeks I stopped in hear, a-working with a will,

    And soon became acquainted with the folks of Sawdust Hill......................................

    November 17, 2008