beyond hardly slept the night before but not his brother aar in all fairness you couldn't blame me for him it was just another day of work but for the boy it was the first day of his vacation from school and he was going to make the most  family lived on a small farm they were people of the bar as his father and brother made their living with the stroke of the axe and the pull of the song and to day for the first time the boy was to work at their side in the far east people often say you are as old as you feel well that day the boy felt like a man and he was ready and anxious to prove  yes it felt good to the boy having wonderful people for a family his mother maybe a gentle woman who gave a loving care to her family is father louis a kind man together they were the hunters for over eighty years one hundred families has owned this farm the boy's grandfather and his father before him cleared this land and planted the hundreds of always work for themselves not for wages and their earnings depended on how hard they  work and so on this day the james would always remember he and his father and his brother set out for the f news chest swelled with pride for the day he felt like a partner in the firm a hunter and as every morning lewis hunter stopped down the road to talk to archie hodges and his helper adam this land belongs to many people and so the woodsmen must pay each owner for the rights to cut trees on his land it was a short trip to the tract of land where the hunters at a range to cut trees but the hodges had a little farther to go a tree was chosen it was crippled in the direction it was to fall only when this first tree lay on the ground was the work that a boy looming the breeze might not seem important but it was a help to james's father and brother another pair of hands swinging an axe many more trees failed well the boy was doing something that yesterday and the days before his elders had to do for themselves a load of logs was slowly taking shape when they heard a truck coming down the road james asked his father if he could visit the hodges to watch all his mechanical equipment cutting logs but his father said later knol that was work to be done only at high noon when the hot summer sun beat down from the sky to the hunters stop working the time had come from hunters hames but didn't say very much under paid a feeble compliment to mamie's much but he didn't make james smile james was in no mood for a joke but there was something else on the boy but there were other trees an odor and sturdier ready to be cut waiting for his work to begin james thought about archie hodges and how fast he was able to cut it and look james decided to visit the hodges and watch them wor all like the power a day's work in the forest i know laid up but the best time of day was yet to come at least for the boy for the first time james was going to accompany his father inside the great mill which bought their because it was there was a friendly feeling about the mail the boy's father was known and respected for the honest hard working man he was the day's labor was carefully measured and the record ma thing tom received something else more logs with less work was paid for three loads of help the job will soon be making twice as much james finally asked his father why couldn't we own a power saw like tom reese and archie hodges if palmer had a ready  they couldn't afford a star like tom's cost a great deal of money and they were still paying for their truck which was the most essential piece of equipment for their work on the way home james tried to think how they could save enough money to pay cash for the sob but the idea seemed impossible he concentrated so hard on the problem that is father had to cheer him up that evening father hunter called his family together he told them that as a group they were living within their means spending the joint earnings mostly for things that were needed seldom was there money for the extra thing the money belong to all of them so it was up to all to decide heirs it was difficult to put aside the desire to buy things only because the money was being saved for something else mother hunters soon discovered that shopping on her new low budget meant doing without some of the pleasant but are necessary delicac the hunters left town taking only what was needed not a cent was spent for anything they could do without each calling dropped in the jar was a personal sacrifice but it wasn't hard to make because it was all being done for the common good the measuring station always greeted him with a smile because he understood what they were trying to do each week passing put them closer to their goals until one day the hundred found it difficult to find words to express the gratitude in his heart it was cotton picking time and this year the little given up on our crop the hunters had watched over it like a proud again caring for it by continuing to work from daybreak to dusk under and sons were able to deliver a load of logs to the mill three times each day and now one five hundred turned in his slips he received as much money for one day's work as he used to get  was a good day good for all and it showed in many ways there was extra time and money for things they could never do before there was finally enough money under him son was didn't forget an obligation long postponed mother would give him so much was at last to get what she wanted