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The underwood was nearly cut, and bundles of long split poles for hooping barrels were piled together against the tall oak trees, bursting with their sap; whilst piles of faggots were built up in other parts of the copse, and one or two saw-pits, with light open sheds erected over them, whence issued the measured sound of the saw and the occasional voices of the workmen, almost concealed by their subterranean position, were placed in the hollows.
To Lambeth they therefore removed, because it abounded in saw-pits; but this advantage was more than destroyed by its abundance of skittle-grounds.
The erection of barracks for the soldiers was projected, and the private men of each company undertook to build for themselves two wooden houses, of sixty-eight feet in length, and twenty-three in breadth. To forward the design, several saw-pits were immediately set to work, and four ship carpenters attached to the battalion, for the purpose of directing and completing this necessary undertaking.
The Z'm Z'm of the saws grew loud in Ruth's ears before crossing the ridge she spied the huts between the trees a congregation of ten or a dozen standing a little way back from a smooth-flowing river. Between the huts and the river were many saw-pits, with men at work. At young Adam's hail the men in view desisted, quite as though he had sounded the dinner horn.
At Rochester the soldiers profaned the cathedral by using it as a stable and a tippling place, while saw-pits were made in the sacred building and carpenters plied their trade. At Chichester the pikes of the Puritans and their wild savagery reduced the interior to a ruinous desolation.
They have visitors in the high summer weather, when a grey cloak and umbrella, unknown to Chesney Wold at other periods, are seen among the leaves; when two young ladies are occasionally found gambolling in sequestered saw-pits and such nooks of the park; and when the smoke of two pipes wreathes away into the fragrant evening air from the trooper's door.
It would almost seem as if they knew the fate that awaited them in the saw-pits, and in every fibre of their being exercised an instinct for self-preservation. For instance, a log may refuse to pass a certain rock in the river which has offered no obstruction whatever to other logs.
"I never knew Will to be so late before," said the stranger. "Perhaps he is carrying his logs to the saw-pits." "Will!" exclaimed the wife. "What, you know my husband, then? I thought you were a stranger in these parts." "Oh, I have been past this place several times," said the old man, looking rather confused; "and so, of course, I have heard of your husband.
Underneath this, again, are the saw-pits, where logs are cut into deals of all dimensions a laborious and painful process when performed by manual labour, as must have been apparent to all who have witnessed it and who has not? The sawn timber is stowed in 'racks' in the rear of the building.
The other two sides of the quadrangle are occupied by saw-pits, painters' shops, stores, offices, and all the conveniences required for carrying on a business which frequently gives employment to eleven or twelve hundred men. The reputation of Messrs.
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