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The men couldn't see how they were going to catch up, so they'd slacked down a little, which made it worse. Powell had his jacket off and was working like the devil with a canthook. He does about the quickest and hardest yank with a canthook I ever saw," mused Bob. "Well?" demanded Tally. "Oh," said Bob, "I told him if that was the kind of a job he wanted, he could have it.
Rafe ran forward on the plunging timber he now rode the huge stick that had made all the trouble, and tried to reach the man in the water. No use! Of course, there was no way for Rafe to guide his log toward the drowning man. Nor did he have anything to reach out for Turner to grasp. The axe handle was not long enough, and the foreman's canthook had disappeared.
"There he is, Uncle!" she cried. "Oh! He's jumped out on that log, see?" "He's all right, girl, he's all right," said Uncle Henry comfortingly. "Rafe's got good calks on his boots." The boy sprang from log to log, the calks making the chips fly, and with a canthook pushed off a log that had caught and swung upon a small bank.
Tim Turner leaped spaces of eight and ten feet between the logs, landing secure and safe upon the stranded log at last. With the heavy canthook he tried to start it. "That's a good man, Tim Turner," said Mr. Sherwood, heartily. "He's worked for me, isn't afraid of anything, Ha! But that's wrong!" he suddenly exclaimed. Turner had failed to start the stranded log.
Hook your canthook on the other side and stop the log from rolling before it mashes you flat," advised Hippy. "I got ter talk now, and then I'll quit and git out fer good. I took money fer ter do ye an inj'ry. I took it from that houn' Ainsworth. I was to tell him 'bout things that was goin' on here and "
And I told Downy to take charge. I don't pay a foreman's wages for canthook work; I hire him to keep the men busy, and he sure can't do it if he occupies his time and attention rolling logs." "He was doing his best to straighten things out," said Tally. "Well, I'm now paying him for his best," replied Bob, philosophically.
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