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The course for the next five miles was up the large bayou, of which the Crosscut was a tributary. It was lined on both sides with large trees, which sheltered the water, to some extent, from the force of the wind, and her progress was less rapid than before. The navigation was less obstructed, and Cyd was called aft to enjoy the luxury of the cushioned seats.
At evening she stood at the window in Beatriz's room, watching the bold front of the mountain which the Great Northern tracks crosscut to Cascade tunnel, when the Spokane local rounded the highest curve and dropped cautiously to the first snow-sheds.
The ox-sled that brought Mirren's chest also brought a crosscut saw, and they tried it at once in cutting the logs for the new shanty. Archie's saying he did not like to see her pulling the saw, brought out the retort that she would not do it for other house than one for father and mother. That summer was the happiest they had ever known.
Here, at any crosscut, any debouching cañon, a man might turn to his undoing, might travel on and up and never reach those beckoning heights, seen clearly from some blind pocket he had wandered into, might never find his way back to the original cañon among the continuous cuts that met and crossed and passed each other among the towering points and sheets. But Old Pete knew where he was going.
"Get out!" said the weigh-boss, turning away. "But, Mister!" cried Old Mike, following behind him, and pouring his whole soul into his words. "What is this life, Mister? You work like a burro, and you don't get nothing for it! You burn your own powder half a dollar a day powder what you think of that? Crosscut and you get nothing! Take the skip and a pillar, and you get nothing!
Sharp, to meet a gruff, bewhiskered individual, with a voice like a crosscut saw, and a rolling gait. Instead he saw a man of medium size, with a smooth face, merry blue eyes, and the softest voice and gentlest manner imaginable. Tom was very much disappointed. He had looked for a regular sea-dog, and he met a landsman, as he said afterward.
Stake and rider fences enclosed the fields and pastures and while most of the houses, barns and cribs were constructed of logs, some lumber was manufactured in crude sawmills in which was used what was known as a "slash saw". This was something like the crosscut saws of today and was operated by a crank that gave the saw an alternating up and down motion.
One of the others nodded sympathetically, as he answered: "Well, I guess I've seen the trouble trailing you for quite a while. Got to let up or play out. It's one I've been up against myself." He made a vague gesture. "A little rough on you." Then he and one of his comrades took up a big crosscut saw, while the other swung a gleaming axe.
He's running a crosscut from an upraise in the Radley drift, so as to tap the west tunnel of the Last Dollar." "It is dangerous, you inform me?" "Dangerous ain't the word. It's suicide, the way I look at it. See here, my friend. His drill goes through and lets loose about 'steen million gallons of water. How is he going to get in out of the rain about that time?"
She shook herself, quivering through all her light, pliable construction, lifted her prow another inch or two, and flung the rapids behind her. Slim, fleet, clean-heeled, and hungry for distance, she raced toward the Benton landing two miles up. In my anxiety to show her to the benevolent ones, I left the current and took a crosscut over a rocky ford.
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