FOREWORD 
of the Washington Office; Mr. Arthur C. Ringland, 
District Forester of the Southwest; and Mr. Don 
P. Johnson, Supervisor of the Gila National Forest, 
for their careful examination of the manuscript and 
for their many suggestions to which in no small 
measure whatever of merit the story possesses must 
be attributed. 
Readers of the manuscript have suggested that 
a number of terms used, while common enough 
in the locality where the story is set or in Forest 
Service circles, may not be familiar to the general 
reader. To obviate this difficulty without stopping 
in every case during the action of the log to explain 
such expressions a brief glossary is appended which 
defines those words and phrases that seem most 
to want defining. I think that’s all—except the 
story. z 
W. P. 1. 
New York City, 
1914. 
