"There is not much to see," he said, apologetically.

"You just cut a natch in the tree, and drive in the spile, and--" "Oh, but wait," she cried.

"That's just what I wanted to see.

How do you make the spile ?" "Oh, that is easy," said Ranald.

He took up a slightly concave chisel or gouge, and slit a slim slab from off a block of cedar about a foot long.
"This is a spile," he exclaimed.