CHAPTER IX.

THE FIRE.

Raymond let the cattle browse about, while he went to work, cutting down some small, but yet pretty tall and bushy trees. He then brought up the team, and hooked a long chain into the ring which hung down from the middle of the yoke, upon the under side. The end of the chain trailed upon the ground, as the oxen came along, and Caleb was very much interested to see how they would trample along, any where, among the rocks, roots, mire, logs, bushes, stumps, and, in fact, over and through almost any thing, chewing their cud all the time, patient and unconcerned. When they were brought up near to one of the trees that had been cut down, Raymond would hook the chain around the butt end of it, and then, at his command, they would drag it out of its place in the line of the fence. After looking on for some time, Caleb began to think that he would go to work; and he went to a little tree, with a stem about as big round as his arm, and began to saw away upon it. He found that the saw would run very well indeed; and in a short time, he got the tree off, and then undertook to drag it to the fence.

Raymond was always a very silent man; he seldom spoke, unless to answer a question; and while Caleb had been watching him, when he first began to work, instead of talking with Caleb, as Caleb would have desired, he was all the time singing,

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. cutting down trees
2. browsing about
3. how the oxen would trample along
4. patient
5. hook the chain around the butt end
6. drag it out of its place
7. no
8. to answer a question
9. tall and bushy trees
10. no
11. rocks, roots, mire
12. chewing their cud
13. no
14. he began to think that he would go to work
15. went to a little tree
16. no
17. saw away upon it
18. yes
19. no
1. what was raymond doing?
2. what were the cows doing?
3. what was caleb interested to see?
4. how did the oxen act as they walked?
5. what did Raymond do when they go to a cut down tree?
6. what did he command the oxen to do then?
7. did Raymond talk a lot?
8. when did he talk?
9. what kind of trees did he cut?
10. were the oxen pick about where they walked?
11. what were some of the things they walked amoung?
12. what were they doing as they went along?
13. were they in a hurry?
14. what did Caleb do after watching?
15. what did he do then?
16. was it a big tree?
17. what did he start to do to the branch?
18. did the saw cut well?
19. was Caleb quiet like Raymond?