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"Lamps were lit and the scholars gathered themselves around the tables." 



were measuring'. 



When one of the 

 measurers called out a number like 

 "pine twenty-four," the tallyman 

 simply made a dot in the twenty- 

 four inch column opposite the word 

 "pine." At the end of the day these 

 dots are counted and the estimate 

 worked out. The measurers car- 

 ried wooden instruments called cali- 

 pers with which they measured the 

 size of the trees when in doubt, but 

 for the most part they trusted to 

 their eyes, as, after a time, they get 

 very skilful in judging the size of 

 trees. 



The Boy also found out that in 

 estiinating how much timber there 

 was on a certain area, the estimators 

 did not count every tree. They ran 

 straight strips about as wide as a 

 city or town street or country road- 

 way through the property and 

 counted and measured every tree in 

 those strips. Then if the strips alto- 



gether amounted to one-twentieth of 

 the whole area, they multiplied the 

 result of their counting by twenty 

 and thus got the timber on the whole 

 area. Of course this must always 

 be done with judgment to make al- 

 lowance for lakes, swamps, moun- 

 tains, burnt places or specially good 

 or bad pieces of timber, and here is 

 where the skill and experience of the 

 estimator comes in. 



Back at the Log "College." 



In spite of his good lunch the Boy 

 began to feel very hungry and he 

 was glad to liear the chief of the 

 party say that they had finished the 

 work for the day and would go back 

 to the College for supper. The Boy 

 thought of the colleges he had seen 

 in the city when his father had taken 

 him there and he was quite sur- 

 prised, when, after half an hour's 

 walk, thev came out on a cleared 



