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as they gradually drew near to it. It was small
One end, the nearest end, as they rode towards
it, was covered with boards, which looked new.
The other end was, as Lucy said, all timbers.

« Yes,” said Robert; “he hasn’t covered but
one room yet. That’s what he wants to get
some boards for now, to put on the rest of it.”

Lucy saw several small buildings around the
house. They were made of logs and slabs.
There was a large haycock behind the house,
with a roof over it, supported at the corners by
tall poles. In front of the house, there was a
man at work upon a great log. The log was
lying in a horizontal position, each end bein
blocked up from the ground ; that is, each end
was supported by blocks and logs put underneath.

“What are they doing with that great log?”
said Lucy’s mother.

“T guess they’re going to make boards of it,”
said Lucy.

“No,” said Robert; “they’re boring it. I
expect they are going to make a pump.”

“1 did not know that they could make a pump
out of a log,” said Lucy.

“ Yes,” said Robert; “don’t you see he’s bor-
ing a hole through it?”

Lucy now observed that the man who was
working at the log, stood at the end of it, and that
he had a tool in his hand, that looked like an
auger. He held the handle of it, and kept con-
tinually turning it round. The iron part entered
into a hole in the end of the log, and Lucy saw