60 Trails to Woods and Waters 



who was watching eyery board taken from the 

 old log. 



" That is right," said the sawyer, " it was 

 a forest fire. Must have happened more than 

 fifty years ago, but how did the kid know? " 



The boy blushed and looked ashamed, but 

 said nothing and the sawing went on. 



When the mammoth log had been sawed 

 and placed upon another car to be run into 

 the yard and stacked, the sawyer said, " Six- 

 teen hundred feet in one butt-log. Well, that 

 breaks the record! " 



" Gracious, sonny," he exclaimed, when he 

 had finished figuring, " seems to me you'll be 

 late to school. Bell must have rung half an 

 hour ago." 



" That's so," said the boy, catching up his 

 dinner pail and starting down the gangplank 

 on a run. " I was so interested in the old 

 log I forgot," but all the rest of the way to 

 school he marvelled at the beauty and mystery 

 of the old pine's story and was deeply grate- 

 ful that he had eyes to see and a heart to 

 understand these things. 



