Poquette

Last, but certainly not least, is last week's winning poet Carson “Mudflap” Poquette, who honed his literary skills while incarcerated for aggravated assault in a medium-security prison.

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I don't want to hear a word about it till I get out of a canoe at Poquette

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

One evening just after dusk his foreman scratched on the flap of the engineer's tent, in which he was now living at Poquette.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

When one understood all that had gone before, the moment was an electric one for the future of the Poquette region.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

It was hardly credible, either, that a man with as extensive property interests as Colonel Ward possessed would dare to destroy wantonly the goods of a railroad company in the strong position of the Poquette road.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

Then came the long paddle across Spinnaker Lake, with only the unfamiliar insecurity of a canoe beneath him, and after that the six-mile Poquette carry.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

"Do ye think, in the first place, that Colonel Gid is going to sell 'em any right o 'way across Poquette?" asked the postmaster.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

The engineer found his little garrison holding the fort at the Poquette

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

"You forget the 'Poquette and Sunkhaze Air-Line," Parker smiled.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

It was pointed out that a dangerous precedent would be established; that forest fires would be sure to originate from the locomotive's sparks, and that the Poquette woods were the center of the great West Branch timber growth.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900