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It seemed to him that he could not reasonably have expected to clear that obstacle with a battalion of log-drivers, and he had only a handful of weary men.
He showed a map and told Sir Oliver further that at the narrowest point between the two rivers there dwelt a couple of brothers, Dave and Andy M'Lauchlin, with their households and long families, of whom all the boys were expert log-drivers, like their fathers.
After that, when the mill stopped work at sundown, there was a council held, amid the suddenly silent saws. "What's to be done about the orphants?" was the way Jimmy Wright put the problem. Black Angus MacAllister, the Boss so called to distinguish him from Red Angus, one of the gang of log-drivers had his ideas already pretty well formed on the subject, and intended that his ideas should go.
When the creek had reached its maximum height the foreman gave word to the log-drivers to lower the gate and let the timber down. This order came on a chilly April night, and, as it was pitchy dark and rain was falling in sheets, the lumbermen agreed to draw cuts to decide which of them should venture out and start the logs. Cloudy drew the fatal slip.
Thousands of these logs are thrown into the water to drift down to the sea by themselves; but on some of the slower rivers the logs are made up into rafts which are guided down the stream by men who live on the raft during its journey. It was one of the log-drivers who had been caught while he was trying to push the logs out into the channel; and now his leg was broken.
When the creek had reached its maximum height the foreman gave word to the log-drivers to lower the gate and let the timber down. This order came on a chilly April night, and, as it was pitchy dark and rain was falling in sheets, the lumbermen agreed to draw cuts to decide which of them should venture out and start the logs. Cloudy drew the fatal slip.
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