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mating" the timber on the "south 

 forty" which the Boy was told 

 meant a certain square of forty 

 acres. Others were to study Den- 

 drology, which is the natural history 

 of trees. Still others were to chop 

 down such a number of trees of dif- 

 ferent sizes and measure them. 



One thing that struck the Boy 

 particularly was the care they took 

 to extinguish their fire. It was only 

 a little fire to begin with and it 

 seemed all burned out but they 

 soused it with pail after pail of 

 water from the brook till the cinders 

 were swimming in water. That was 

 the way, they said, to keep out for- 

 est fires. 



In a few minutes they were all at 

 work. The tree-felling was to be 

 done near at hand and the Boy first 

 watched this. The scholars of the 

 Forest School took up their sharp 

 axes, and saws. One cut a nick in 

 one side of a tree with an axe and 

 then two others sawed into the tree 

 from the other side. They soon had 



the trees they selected crashing 

 down through the other trees of the 

 forest. Then they took their saws 

 and sawed the trees into logs of dif- 

 ferent lengths and peeled the bark 

 from these logs. After this they 

 carefully measured the logs and the 

 Boy found that this was done to 

 make the "estimate" more exact, 

 since trees of the same height and 

 the same diameter growing in dif- 



'They came up with a party under one of the teachers studying the natural 

 history and characteristics of the trees." 



