straw boss

If anyone gets fresh the straw boss can jump him, or kick him out, but those that stick with the gang have to listen to him.

For the horseman who had ridden out of the covert was Stroud, the Rancho Seco straw-boss.

Bill could see only one thingthe straw-boss was afraid of him.

He was a straw boss or foreman, Ramsay decided, and his voice betrayed his New England forebears.

Swamp's End—and the roaring hilarity thereof—for man and boy, straw-boss and cookee, of the lumber-jacks!