The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp

especially when the smaller Bobbsey twins learned that their brother and sis

go nutting!"

"An' I want to eat my dinne

y come with us," objected Ber

Nan. "They'd get tired and want to come

hem some other time, I suppose." Then, as she knew Flossie an

wmill and see the big logs sawed up into boa

un. Also they liked to see the big, jagged-tooth saw whizzing about and c

ll that will be 'most as much

us some nuts?"

. "And next time we

ed. Taking lunch was a sort of

e get hungry?" he h

ng to eat in our po

e outside-sitting on

d Nan. "I'll cat

en a good lunch, more than enough

oods," Bert remarked. "And we don't

twins where to take the path that led up along Pine Brook and deeper

ch of the log cabin, waving to Bert and Nan, who started off wit

hey were soon lost to sight in the turn of the path al

rs. Bobbsey. "We'll go down and see

e North Woods also sawed up trees into planks and boards which were sold in the neighborhood. Besides thi

as trees, which their father had come to camp to see about. All they were

to make a waterfall. Part of the waterfall went through a flume, or sort of wooden canal, an

ee the turbine wheel at all, for it is closed in at the bottom of the water shaft. It is small, but very

g, tearing sound of the saw as it cut its way through the logs, slicing them

lled Foreman Tom Case, who had charge of the sawmi

time, worked in the lumberyard of their father in Lake

rning, Flossie?" asked the jolly sawman. "An

g joke between the sawmill man and the little twins. Tom Case was always trying to sell a big

ave around a lumber camp," laughed Mr. Case. "Wher

heir mother answered. "So we came d

right down on this soft place, and you can watch everything." Mr. Case spread a horse blanket on

e through which the water dropped to turn the turbine wheel. Into these logs a big iron hook w

he chain was wound up and the log was pulled from the water up on land and r

as she saw them pulled, or "snaked," as it

" chimed i

and if the log turned over, and got on your legs,

r a time he kept his balance, and was given a ride. But as Mrs. Bobbsey cried out, the log s

de with a laugh, an

you, only you might not have gotte

o ride," si

I!" adde

e if they don't get too near the saw, and you

" agreed Mr

ed and the big buzz saw was no longer whirring around. Once a log was fastened in place, Tom Case pulled a lever, and the turbine wheel began to turn the saw, and also move forward the carriag

if they had stayed on too long they would have been carried up against the dangerous saw just as the log was. But b

ie, as she dragged her feet th

agreed Freddie. "I'm going to be

eman?" asked his mother, for that

d his mind about every other day concerning what he intended to d

and Freddie off. With a final zip and clatter the board was sawed off the side of the log. Then the carriage would move bac

ch faster than it moved forward. And the little Bobbsey twins like

o send the carriage on its return trip. Mrs. Bo

fun at the sawmill, and they did not want to come away when the noon whistle blew and it was time for lunch. For there was a steam engine

r, she left the smaller twins to amuse themselves near the cabin. Their father was out with some of his men looking after

and Flossie wandered down near Pine Brook, w

little girl. "But what

d and noticed a whee

d I'll turn the wheel for a saw and you can hold stic

d Flossie. "That'l

heelbarrow, and then a

n to the edge of the brook. We'll have our sawmill there, and

asped the handles, but his sister was almost more of a load than he had bargained for. Still

his wheelbarrow sawmill. Toward this place he wheeled Flossie, and all might have gone well

it over and make a saw of it, when his feet slipped. He lurched forward, gave the wheelbarrow a push, and, an instant later, it turned ove

hough the breath was knocked out of him for a m

ssie's fallen into the brook and

at the foot of the pine needle h