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Updated: May 23, 2025
It took six good days of such chorus work to get every odd job at The Briers nicely finished up, and daddy and the mayor and Colonel Menefee mended all the rail fences before they rested on the seventh. Then on Monday morning came the log-raising for the poet's lodge, and everybody assembled long before Sam had nicked the last log with his great big adz.
If it was a home or a crib to be built, it was a "log-raising," and everyone worked and made fun from it. The steeple of a church arose in the valley. It was built by those of the Methodist faith.
As a social function it had a prominent place in the settlers' short list of pleasures. Joe watched the proceeding with the same pleasure and surprise he had felt in everything pertaining to border life. To him this log-raising appeared the hardest kind of labor.
Zane that the colonel had gone to a log-raising; Jonathan had not been in for several days, and Betty went away with Will. "Where did they go?" asked Helen. "I'm not sure; I think down to the spring." Helen followed the familiar path through the grove of oaks into the glade. It was quite deserted.
They observed without thought of inconvenience the Colonial idea of "bundling." When the stranger proved worthy there would be a log-rolling and a space of ground cleared for him to till, and a log-raising in which the community joined, and made a merry occasion of it, to give him a home. The way was easy for his ownership of the land and the cabin.
Wells, with his nieces, joined the party now, and all stood watching as the last logs were put in place. "Colonel Zane, my first log-raising is an education to me," said the young minister, in his earnest manner. "This scene is so full of life. I never saw such goodwill among laboring men. Look at that brawny-armed giant standing on the topmost log. How he whistles as he swings his ax! Mr.
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