No man showed any sign of hurrying, but all acted as if there were nothing in the world as cheap as time.

One day I watched the wooding operation from beginning to end.

It took an hour and a half and twelve men to bring about four cords of wood on board.

There was but one man displaying any activity, and _he_ was falling from the plank into the river.
[Illustration: WOODING UP.] The Russian measure of wood is the _sajene_ (fathom.) and a sajene of wood is a pile a fathom long, wide, and high.

The Russian marine fathom measures six feet like our own, but the land fathom is seven feet.