Mudcat Café message #1646922

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Thread #87987 Message #1646922
Posted By: Abby Sale
12-Jan-06 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Jan 12 (Robinson's Camp burned)
Subject: happy? – Jan 12 (Robinson's Camp burned)

         But soon misfortune came to us, as you will all soon hear,
          It was the month of January, just twelve days from New Year,
          When Charlie came and told us that our camp had burned down,
          That our clothing and our bedding laid in ashes on the ground.
  
             "The Burning of Henry K Robinson's Camp in 1873," written at that logging camp
             by a teamster named Henry Thompson; Minstrelsy of Maine; Fannie Eckstorm; 1927