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dinner-pail with the rest and engaged passage on the front 

 team. Arriving at the wood-piles scattered through the clear- 

 ing among stumps and brush, instead of allowing each one to 

 look out and load for himself, the five remaining teamsters came 

 forward and helped me and the first team. In five minutes it 

 was off. The four remaining then helped hmd the second, and 

 it was quickly off. So on, until finally the last one had only 

 myself to help him load. When he was off I had just time to 

 look out a place for the first to drive up and load. I would cut 

 off a log, throw open a pile, or take off part of its end, and so on. 

 If it was still a difficult spot to reach among stumps and piles 

 or where by setting his wagon or sled in a certain position, he 

 could load quicker, or start much easier, I met the team, 

 jumped on, took the lines, and without stopping, dropped into 

 position I had got ready for it. I never found a teamster who 

 could drive in or round a difficult place better than I, and 

 much delay and breakage were saved by doing it myself. 

 At the end of the route where they unloaded I always placed 

 a reliable foreman to see that they unloaded and did not 

 delay. This party's idle time between loads was put in piling. 

 In this way a stream of wood poured out ceaselessly 

 all day, and we got n^.uch accomplished. The principle of this 

 illustration I always carried out in all my farm work. 



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Some people do this at great expense. My plan was, if a 

 fence needed moving or rebuilding to take several men and 

 superintended the operation in person. It is work easily 

 "soldiered" at. Besides, I laid the "worm" straight and 

 rapidly, working systematically. I expected a man to handle a 

 rail as quickly as I ; and they were ashamed to be very much 

 slower. I meant business when I worked, was never spasmodical, 

 every day being the same with me. On taking a new piece to 

 begin the rotation, turning in all hands I set a fence out from 

 its nest of weeds in short order, and plowed it up with the 

 field. The three years of crops killed the v/ecds, and it only 

 cost setting over the fence. So of stumpa, or other unsightly 



