Oh, I guess I could tell a weathered scantling from a green one, and a long time ago, when I was out here, my father taught me how to scale a log.

That's about all." "Could you tell if a man cut a tree to get the greatest footage?
If you should say to a lumberjack to fell a tree at the spring of the root, would you know whether he did it or not?
Heh?
Could you know if the sawyer robbed you of fifty feet on ever' log?
No?
Then we shall learn.

To-morrow, we shall go to the mill.

M'sieu Thayer shall not be there.

Perhaps Ba'tiste can tell you much.