He turned and walked back, and Jenny, like a dog, without the necessity of command, followed him in slow patience.
Now came Dyer, the scaler, rapidly down the logging road, a small slender man with a little, turned-up mustache.

The men disliked him because of his affectation of a city smartness, and because he never ate with them, even when there was plenty of room.

Radway had confidence in him because he lived in the same shanty with him.

This one fact a good deal explains Radway's character.

The scaler's duty at present was to measure the diameter of the logs in each skidway, and so compute the number of board feet.