Sentence:  The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes <WSD>cordwood</WSD> floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.