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OLD WEST SURREY 



In the quite old clays timber was loaded with a triangle 

 of straight poles and a chain and pulley, but ever since I 

 can remember by an easier method. The timber-waggon is 

 drawn up by the side of the tree-trunk, which lies about as 

 far from it as the edge of the roadway that shows in the 

 picture. There are two chains, long and strong, called the 

 rolling chains. These have one end attached to the timber- 



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carriage, while the other is carried under the log, brought up 

 over it and passed right away over the middle of the waggon 

 to the further side, where the horses are waiting. Stout 

 pieces of oak lean from the log on the ground up to the end 

 ot each transom over the wheels, to form a rolling way. The 

 hooks of the whippances that dangle below the horses' hocks 

 are hooked into the free ends of the chains : the horses, 

 answering the carter's word, strain forward to their work ; the 



