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hauled to the bank. Robert went into this place,
and began at once to cut down one of the tallest
bushes.

Lucy watched the blows of his axe, until, at
last, the tree began to fall. It would have fallen
over upon her, had not Robert called upon her to
run away. When it was down, Robert cut off
the top and all the branches, and these he put on
the heap. Then he cut the long pole in two, in
the middle. This made two short poles of it.
Then Eben came up with a small chain whick
he had in his hand, and which he had brought
with him, and contrived to hook it around one
end of one of the poles, and then began to draw
it off towards the brook.

“Ys that the kind of log you meant, that Eben
could draw?” asked Lucy.

“ Yes,” said Robert.

O, I thought you meant a large log.”

“No,” said Robert; “we call these our logs.
We are going to get a great many piles of them
by the brook ; and then, when there comes a freshet,
we are coming up here, and going to tumble them
in, and let them sail away down home.”

Robert cut Lucy a long stick for a goad-stick,
aud then she drove Eben back and forth several