"Let's get a big pry!" "We can't move that rock!" Ben declared.

"We shall have to drill it and blast it." But we had used all the powder and fuse, and it would take several hours to get more.

Ben insisted, however, on sending Alfred Batchelder for the powder, and then, seizing the hammer and drill, he began to drill a hole in the side of the rock.
Thomas, however, still believed that we could move the rock by throwing our united weight on a long pry; and many of the boys agreed with him.
We felled a spruce tree seven inches in diameter, trimmed it and cut a pry twenty feet long from it.

Carrying it to the rock, we set a stone for a fulcrum, and then threw our weight repeatedly on the long end.

The rock, which must have weighed ten tons or more, scarcely stirred.