The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-29

Just do what you're told to on this river and you'n ses fun sure."
 Three days later the rear crew ran into the head of the pond above Reeds dam To every one's surprise, Orde called halt on the work and announc- ed holiday.
 Now, holidays are unknown on drive. Barely is time allowed for eating and sleeping Nevertheless all that, day the men lay about in complete idle ness. The pond filled with logs. From above the current, aided by a fair wind, was driving down still other logs-the forerunners of the little drive astern. At sight of these some of the men grumbled. Were losin' what we made,r said. they We left them logs and sorted 'en out once already"
 Orde sent a couple of axmen to blaze the newcomers. A little before sun down he ordered the sIuice gates of the dam opened
 Might work" said the men to one another.
 Sure enough. after supper Orde sud- denly appeared among them
 "Get organized, boys" said he brisk ly. we've got to get this pond all sluiced before morning.
 The men took their places
 "Siuice through everything but the Fl, logs. Orde commanded "Work them off to the left and leave them"
 The sluicing, under the impetus of big crew, went rapidly There's near a million an hour going through there, speculated ore, watching the burden ed waters of the chute And in this work the men distinguished easily the new white blaze marks on Heinzman's logs, so they were able to shunt them one side into the smoother water, as Orde had commanded
 As the last log shot through Orde cried. Tear out the boomsw
 The chute to the dam was approach ed, as has been earlier explained, by two rows of booms arranged in V, or funnel, the apex of which emptied into the sluicsway and the wide, projecting arms of which embraced the width of the stream. The logs, floating down the pond. were thus concentrated to- ward the sluice; also the riEermen, walking back and forth the length of the booms, were able easily to keep the drive moving.
 Now, however, Orde unclaimed these boom logs. The men pushed them ashore, clamped in their peavies and, using these implements as handles, carried the booms back into the woods. Then everybody tramped back and forth, round and abopt, to confuse the trail. Orde was like mischiev ous boy at a school prank.
 The blazed logs belonging to Heinz man, drifting slowly. had sucked down. into the corner toward the power canal. where. caught against the grating. they had jammed- These logs would have to be fioated singly and pushed one by one against the current across the pond and into the influence of the sluice gate. Some of them would be hard to come at.
 'T guess that will keep them busy for. a day or two," commented Orde
 This, as Orie has said, would be suf fciently annoying to Heinzman, but would have little real effect on the main issue. which was that the Ger man was getting down his logs with a crew of less than a dozen men. Nev- ertheless Orde in a vast spirit of fun took delight in inventing and executing practical jokes of the general sort just described. One day the chore boy, who had been over to Spruce Rapids after mail, reported that an additional crew of twenty had been sent in to Heinz mans drive. This was gratifying.
 To be Continued,