Wood was generally piled fifty, a hundred, or five hundred feet from the landing place, wherever most convenient to the owner.

No one seems to think of placing it near the water's edge as with us; they told me that this had been done formerly, and the freshets had carried the wood away.

The peasants, warned by their loss, are determined to keep on the safe side.
When all was ready the deck hands went very leisurely to work.

Each carried a piece of rope which he looped around a few sticks of wood as a boy secures his bundle of school books.

The rope was then slung upon the shoulder, the wood hanging over the back of the carrier and occasionally coming loose from its fastenings.