they would just point to glaring examples of American 

 haste MIM! shrug their shoulders. One old forester told 

 me that when the Americans wished to talk to the 

 French girls or write letters to them they knew 

 considerable French, but when one tried to tell an 

 American that he was leaving too high stumps, gen- 

 erally the A HUM lean could not understand a word. 



Our axes, saws, and tools of all sorts, that we had, 

 were all American. The French saws and axes were 

 relics of the stone an 1 '-. A good flint hatchet would 

 have been much preferable to the best French axe I 

 ever saw, and yet they use them and seem to get some 

 work done. The French in the region we worked, as 

 a rule, felled all of their trees with an axe, and one 

 cannot blame them for their saws are worse than their 

 axes. \YY u-:ed two kinds of lumber wagons, an eight 

 wheel type, and a four wheel type. The eight wheel 

 type was low. the wheels being perhaps three feet 

 in diameter, with tires about five inches wide. The 

 four wheel sec-lions reminded one some of the four 

 wheel truck- under the ordinary freight cars. There 

 was about four inches clearance between the wheels. 

 When these wagons were used in the mud, they quick- 

 ly became clogged so that neither of the wheels would 

 turn, and dragged along hub deep like a big plow. 

 They were not very popular with the boys for muddy 

 places. They were purchased on the theory that the 

 greater bearing surface of the eight wheels would 

 prevent their cutting into the soft ground, an.^ it did, 

 some, but when they did cut in they were surely horse 

 killers. 



The first harness furnished us was of the breast 



