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"I'd say you were a clever fellow," replied my friend, with one of his knowing looks. "But what say you to my making the attempt?" "Do so, by all means, my boy only don't use up too many pit-saws in the attempt!" I saw that he did not believe in my powers, and became all the more determined to succeed.
"Lumley," said I, "it has often occurred to me that it takes a terrible deal of time to cut trees into planks with our pit-saws, and occupies far too much of the time of two men who might be much more profitably employed." "True, Max what then?" "Why then," said I, "what would you say if I were to construct a saw-mill!"
"We will need two pit-saws," remarked the practical Orkney-man in a meditative tone. "No doubt, no doubt," returned MacSweenie, "and a grindstone too. Do you remember what that man Nazinred said when he came here on his last trup, that the Indians about his country would be fery pleased to see traders settle among them?
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