Then a tiny column of smoke drifted up over Dale's shoulder as he leaned, bareheaded, sheltering the splinters with his hat.

A blaze leaped up.

Roy came with an armful of strips all white and dry, out of the inside of a log.

Crosswise these were laid over the blaze, and it began to roar.

Then piece by piece the men built up a frame upon which they added heavier woods, branches and stumps and logs, erecting a pyramid through which flames and smoke roared upward.