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By Dorothy B. Smith

Forest Grove Trailer Park Ontario, N. Y. 14519

Most of the boys and girls of today have never had the chore of filling the wood box. It always seemed an endless task; every morning and night it had to be done. We were lucky--in our family, splitting the wood was a man's job, so I never had to do that.

Every winter, my Dad and the hired man would go to the woods, between morning and night chores, and fell the trees for the next years wood supply. In those days there were no power saws, so they used the crosscut saw and an axe. The axe was used to make a deep gash on the side of the tree in the direction it was supposed to fall. Then it was sawed almost through from the other side. Usually it fell where it was supposed to. Once in a while it lodged in another tree and then it was a highly dangerous job to get it down. Many people have been seriously hurt with a tree fal...

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