AA LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

was cracked open a little, but not very far, and
the wedge was driven fast into it.

* How came this left so?” said the General.

“Why, father,” said Robert, “I began to split
this log, but I couldn’t.”

While he was saying this, the General rolled
the log over; and he found two other wedges,
lying on the ground, under it, half covered in the
chips.

“One wedge in the log, and two in the chips,
make three signs of a bad woodman,” said the
General.

“Why, you see, father,” said Robert, “ that
the ring of the beetle kept coming off, and so
I couldn’t split it.”

The General then took an axe, which was
standing in its place pretty near where they were,
and with a few heavy blows he split the log, and
liberated the wedge which had been held in the
cleft. Then he told Robert to put the three
wedges upon their shelf, and to carry the beetle,
with the loose ring, into the shop, and to put it
with the tools that were to be mended.

“When is he going to mend it?” said Lucy.

“The first rainy day,” said Ellen ; “he always
sends off all the broken things to the shop, and
then he mends them some rainy day.”