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[ID: A photo of a Canada goose standing on a dirt pathway. End ID]

Canada goose (branta canadensis)

April 11th, 2025

The Wild Man Scare of Old Pinery Days

Best attempt to decipher the text:

STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926

The Wild-Man Scare of old Piney Days (Wausau Pilot)

In the Piney days of the north, some among the boys on all the river drives used to have their fun to keep from dying for want of variety.

In 1865 Bill Kennedy was loading on Prairie river when among the men whose camps were among the willows there, 'up sky' while Dr. Fellows and others were in the trade, there appeared more than what seemed just an average 'half breed' Indian who gave his full share warily in appearance. Around the local boys enjoyed a good deal of the summers were to the time that he 'got wise' to it.

His make up, the men let out, chiefly worth a real. Indeed they complained to men in his camp that something was wrong with their minds and too much work, of doubt.

He was wild and proved to the cook. Time all encouraged boys had got at Joe Hill Kennedy - the case was to dispose - until he would appear before Mr. Kennedy himself as a friend.

Kennedy was an early timberman in the pioneer part of that region and he says that after getting tired of it - all the matter - he was laid away finally even with it - a land matter. He was high, strong and strange. Being arrive invited to set in his berth.

[There appears to be some additional text referring to woods and trees, and mentions of someone named Kennedy making observations, but the print becomes unclear and portions are cut off. The article seems to be about a "wild man" scare story from the logging days, possibly involving someone pretending to be wild to frighten others, though the somewhat fragmented text makes the complete narrative difficult to follow precisely.]

…in the woods and that it seemed to be part man and part animal. For several days there was nothing particular to notice except that Kennedy says somebody was chopping down a large tree near the camp the following loading shift men appeared to be.

"You see that half breed Indian, who came to work here," said Kennedy, "you can't frighten me, get out of my way." The man looked like a homeless wanderer, but he looked like an Indian all right.