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Updated: June 15, 2025
Then I brought them out all my store of tools, and gave every man a digging spade, a shovel, and a rake, for we had no harrows or ploughs; and to every separate place a pickaxe, a crow, a broadaxe, and a saw; always appointing, that as often as any were broken, or worn out, they should be supplied, without grudging, out of the general stores that I left behind.
I never again want to see warmer on this side of Peter's gates especially not since I got this wound in my thigh, with its trick of reopening at the most inconvenient seasons. But the broadaxe was a blessed thought of the little Helene's, and helped to keep the castle right valiantly.
At the same instant the screech of shot sounded overhead, we heard the sharp crack-crack of wood rending and splitting, as with a great broadaxe, and a medley of blocks and ropes rattled to the deck with the 'thud of the falling bodies.
Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is let in, the marks of the conchoidal clippings of the broadaxe, showing the rude way in which the timber was shaped as it came, full of sap, from the neighboring forest. It is a realm of darkness and thick dust, and shroud-like cobwebs and dead things they wrap in their gray folds.
Into the doorway which led from the waist, the two lads dived and scurried through the main cabin now clear of pirates. Locked doors they smashed with a broadaxe found in the small-arms chest and so entered all the rooms. The women passengers were almost dead with suffering, what with the turbulence of the storm and the wild riot on deck. The lads pitied them but had no time to console.
Matt Abrahamson thought he had found something of more than usual value when he came upon this chest; but when he cut the cords and broke open the box with his broadaxe, he could not have been more astonished had he beheld a salamander instead of a baby of nine or ten months old lying half smothered in the blankets that covered the bottom of the chest.
"Is it not so, Jorian?" "Good!" said Jorian. "But with the broadaxe he slashes about him like an angel from heaven not so, Boris?" said Jorian. "Good!" said Boris. "Can you ride?" said the Prince, turning abruptly from them. "Aye, sire!" said I. For indeed I could, and had no shame to say it. "That horse of his is blown; give him your fresh one!" said he to the officer who had accompanied him.
To Robbie Muir and two stalwart Glengarry men from the Ottawa lumber region, who knew all about the broadaxe, he gave the hewing down of the logs that formed the walls. And when they had done, Bill declared they were "better 'an a sawmill."
So it is small wonder that as soon as I gripped the noble broadaxe which Helene passed me I felt my own man again. Then we were silent and listened and ever again listened and held our breaths. Suddenly I heard a sound in the outer chamber which I knew the meaning of. It was the shifting of horses' feet as they turn in narrow space to leave their stalls.
Then judge ye if I sheathed not my small-sword right swiftly, and made the broadaxe blade, to the skill of which I had been born, whistle through the air.
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