Atlantic Forestry November 2019

Yuletide tragedy

AFR: As an “old-timer,” I’d like to submit a verse based on an old-time folklore story I heard as a boy, about a young feller who went to the woods and suffered a fatal accident, and so didn’t get home for Christmas. It possibly could have happened in the woodlands in the area of the Right Hand Leg of Trousers Lake in the country east and north of Plaster Rock, N.B., but I can’t be sure about that location.

D.C. Butterfield
Kilburn, N.B.