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Last summer we visited a lumber camp. It is very interesting to see how the men live there. We ate our dinner where they did, in a long, low building made of rough logs, which they called the "cook shanty." Never before had we seen so many things to eat at one time! We counted twenty-one different kinds of food. We tried to eat just a little of each kind, but couldn't even do that. The men, though, ate heartily because they had been working outdoors all morning. The building in which they slept was called the "bunkhouse." You wouldn't like to sleep there. They had no real beds or soft mattresses or white sheets. The bunks were made of boards and the men slept on ticks filled with straw. They were happy and didn't seem to mind. Perhaps that's because they were used to it!