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Updated: June 12, 2025
He had been lumbering all his life, and there was nothing that fell to the lumberman's experience with which he was not perfectly familiar. Yet it is doubtful if he ever had a more difficult or dangerous task than that before him now. The "key-piece" of the jam was fully exposed, and once it was cut in two it would no longer hold the accumulation of logs together.
They would be released from their bondage, and springing forward with the full force of the pent-up current, would rush madly down stream, carrying everything before them. But what would Johnston do in the midst of this tumult? A few more moments would tell; for his axe was dealing tremendous strokes, before which the key-piece, stout though it was, must soon yield. Ah, it is almost severed.
One log after another was detached from the disordered mass and sent whirling off down stream, until at the end of an hour's arduous exertion, the key-piece that is, the log that had caused all the trouble was found. "Now, my boys," said Johnston to his men, "get ashore as quick as you can. I'll stay and cut out the key-piece." The men demurred for a moment.
The foreman throws aside his axe and prepares to jump for life; and, like one man, the breathless onlookers shout together as the key-piece rends in two, and the huge jam, suddenly released, bursts away from the rock and charges tumultuously down the river. If ever man needed the power of prompt decision, it was the foreman then.
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