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Do you remember
what you heard about the grist mill, to which Guy and Freddy like so
much to go?
There is another mill to which they go sometimes with their father.
This mill is not on the brook, but down on the river where there is
a waterfall. This is a saw-mill, where boards are made. What a great
pile of boards they have inside of the mill!
Do you know where they get the logs to make into boards? Men go into
the woods with axes and cut down the big trees; then they float
theili down the river to the mill.
Do you see those logs lying in the water in front of the mill? When
the logs come to the mill, then the mill men tie strong ropes around
them, and drag them up these planks you see running down into the
water. Inside of the saw-mill there is a great saw, which spins
around very swiftly and cuts the logs up into boards.
Guy and Freddy like to stay in here, for it is not hot and dusty as
in the other mill. They like to lie in the cool saw-dust, and hear
the hum of the saw and smell the fresh scent of the saw boards.
The Saw-Mill
A Fictional Short Story by
Agnes Taylor Ketchum & Ida M. Jorgensen
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