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The machinists who came from Grand Forks to put the different parts of the skidder together, jumped down from the driver's seats and shook hands with the bosses. "Where are you goin' to run her?" asked one of the men of Mr. Latimer.
I imagine it's infidel or Aztec or Nonconformist or something like that. There's a church here a Methodist or some other kind with a parson named Skidder. He claims to have converted the people to Christianity. He and me don't assimilate except on state occasions. I imagine they worship some kind of gods or idols yet. But Skidder says he has 'em in the fold.
"Eight dollars?" said Miss Leeson. "Dear me! I'm not Hetty if I do look green. I'm just a poor little working girl. Show me something higher and lower." Mr. Skidder jumped and strewed the floor with cigarette stubs at the rap on his door. "Excuse me, Mr. Skidder," said Mrs. Parker, with her demon's smile at his pale looks. "I didn't know you were in.
He withdrew into the shelter of the woods and in the fullness of time to the more secure shelter of an Illinois penitentiary where he was entered under the name of Chick Swiper, alias Chick the Speeder, alias Chick the Gent, alias the Car King, alias Jack Skidder perhaps because he was so slippery.
A small clearing had been made by cutting down all of the timber. Here the skidder would find space in which to swing her great arms and lift the immense trunks from their resting place over to the low sledge waiting to receive them. It took all of that day and the greater part of the next to fit the machine up for work.
"The skidder is on the road, boys," said Mr. Starr. "She is!" "When will she git here?" "Mos' time we are beginnin' to need her!" These and many other exclamations greeted his news, and Mr. Starr looked at the date of the postmark to figure out the time they might expect the skidder to arrive at camp.
I asked the lady to have a look at your lambrequins." "They're too lovely for anything," said Miss Leeson, smiling in exactly the way the angels do. After they had gone Mr. "Anna Held'll jump at it," said Mr. Skidder to himself, putting his feet up against the lambrequins and disappearing in a cloud of smoke like an aerial cuttlefish.
Ordinarily the crew for one donkey engine consists of from thirteen to fifteen men, sometimes even as high as twenty-five, but this number is reduced to nine or even lower with the introduction of the steam skidder.
At the end of one of these lines an enormous pair of hooks is suspended. These grasp the timber and convey it to the cars. Ten to twenty thousand feet of logs a day was the output of the old bull or horse teams. The donkey engine brought it to a point where from seventy-five to one hundred thousand could be turned out, and the steam skidder doubled the output of the donkey.
Latimer, pleasing the men by the suggested praise of their work. "What's a skidder, Daddum?" asked Dot. "Why do you call it a she?" added Don. While many who heard Don's question, laughed, Mr. Starr tried to explain to the twins what a skidder was and what use it was. "Then the engineer has to drive her, eh?" asked Don, eagerly looking over at Jim.
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