Ba'tiste stopped and motioned toward a tall spruce.
"See ?" he ordered, as he nicked it with his axe, "you cut heem as far above the ground as he is thick through.

Now, first, the undercut." "Looks like an overcut to me." "Oh, ho! Ah, _oui_, so eet is! But eet is called the undercut.

Eet makes the tree fall the way you want heem!" The axe gleamed in blow after blow.

A deep incision appeared in the trunk of the tree, and at the base of it Ba'tiste started the saw, Barry working on the other end with his good arm.

Ten minutes of work and they switched to the other side.