In the summer the cows go south of the creek for pasture and he rounds them up for milking. The boys father cuts hay and wood and herds cattle for two or three farms. He goes outside and plays his double-ocarina for the insects. He looks in school geography books in the kitchen where moths collect at the windows because it is the only light. The narrator says that the boy longs for summer nights, and then follows with a present tense description of a summer night for the boy. The only connection the loggers have with the town is when they emerge to skate along the line of river, on homemade skates, the blades made of old knives" (8). It takes someone else, much later, to tell the boy that. "No one in the town of Bellrock really knows where the men have come from.
The loggers are seasonal workers come only in the winter, live in temporary shacks "built each December and dismantled the following Spring" behind the Bellrock Hotel.
They do not own this land as the owner of the cow does" (7). "They must do this gently, without any sense of attack or right. Sometimes the loggers meet the cows being brought in (by Patrick's father) for milking, and they stand politely, sometimes touching the cows to warm their hands. Returns to camp standing upright on a log.īellrock farmhouse when Patrick is elevenĪ boy (Patrick Lewis) awakes early and sees thirty loggers walking past the farmhouse down First Lake Road. Loggers - live in temporary shacks behind Bellrock HotelĬook - brings meals when Hazen is working for the logging company. Hazen Lewis - Patrick's father, worked cutting trees and hay and herding cows for farmers before he becomes a dynamite man for loggers. Patrick Lewis - protagonist, interested in insects
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