It is all sawn up in bolts and out on the lake!" "What, in a week ?" exclaimed the old Squire.
"All in five days, sir!" cried Addison and I.
The old gentleman sat looking at us in blank surprise.

He was an experienced lumberman, and knew exactly what such a statement as ours implied.
"Not three hundred cords ?" said he, gravely.
"Close on to that, sir!" cried Addison.
Thereupon we all began to tell him about it at once.

None of us could remain quiet.

But it was not till we had related the whole story, and told him who had helped us, along with Addison's scheme of hiring the horse-power and saw, that he really believed it.

He sprang up, walked twice across the sitting-room, then stopped short and looked at us.
"Boys, I'm proud of you!" he exclaimed.