The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 13, number 2, December 1929

              134 the life of a lumberman willing and steady worker so he soon won our respect someone nicknamed him paddy and jthe name stuck probably because he was so unlike an irishman he had never had any experience at river driving and all the mem bers of the crew were helping him to learn the dangerous game we finally arrived at oconto falls after running the logs through the lindquist dam and there we began clean ing up the timbers which were stranded around the head of the falls paddy kept working closer and closer to the danger spot where a tremendous volume of water thundered over the edge and took an abrupt plunge of forty feet to the riverbed below i warned him repeatedly of the danger there and told him to keep away from the place and let more experienced men do the dangerous work but he persisted probably feeling that he should share the danger with the rest of the crew the inevitable finally happened paddy made a misstep was thrown into the terrific current and carried over the falls before anyone could raise a hand to help him we were all quite dumbfounded stood paralyzed for a time when we regained our wits we realized that it was useless to have any hopes no man we were sure could live after going over the falls and being battered about in the seething caldron below he would be either lost under the wing dams or smashed to bits among the rocks we all felt the loss of paddy keenly but the work had to go on and we continued silently thoughtfully and perhaps a bit more carefully about an hour later paddy appeared on the scene again we stared at him in awe for it was like welcoming a person back from the dead his clothes were torn to shreds but his bones were unbroken and aside from the shaking up he