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For one thing, it's quite a long way to the nearest mill and we'd have to build a skidway for a mile or two down to the water.

Day in and day out it was around the mill that he spent his time, lying on the piles of fresh sawed boards in the sunlight, watching teamsters roll huge logs on the skidway with cant-hooks.

“Well, of all the infernal nonsense I ever listened to, this sermon on Mount Jerusalem clears the skidway,” blurted Britt.

“Nobody knows better nor Rough Shan hisself who put them logs on our skidway,” he declared with a tremendous oath.

He made for the nearest skidway.