[The White Desert by Courtney Ryley Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe White Desert CHAPTER VII 19/24
Then a touch on the arm and he followed Ba'tiste without. The Canadian wandered thoughtfully about a moment, at last to approach a newly stacked pile of lumber and lean against it.
A second more and he drew something to his side and stared at it. "Oh, ho!" came at last.
"M'sieu Houston, he will, what-you-say, fix the can on the sawyer." "Why ?" "First," said Ba'tiste quietly, "he waste a six-inch board on each slab-side he take off.
Un'stand? The first cut--when the bark, eet is sliced off.
He take too much.
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