The Lumberjack

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'Timber!'; and with a crash the mighty oak hit the ground.

There was never a tree too big or a job too tough for Woody. He

enjoyed his job as a lumberjack and with good reason. The pay

was good, he had always liked the outdoors and he was good at

what he did. In fact, some say he was the best. His friends in the

city however said he was crazy for moving away. They said there

are so many opportunities in the city, but Woody never wanted

opportunities, he just wanted to be a lumberjack.

So far this job was running smoothly. They were on schedule

and there was an abundance of trees in British Columbia to keep

them busy for the next while. It seemed so simple at first. Woody

and his crew would cut down the trees and they would be shipped

to a nearby river where they would be floated downstream to the

new lumber mill. At least this was what was supposed to happen.

After the first couple loads, there came reports that the logs

weren't reaching their destination. Some of the men started talking

about how they were logging on uncharted territory and this was

a bad omen. Woody just laughed and said, 'Uncharted territory or

not, we have a job to do and I'm not going to let some little thing

like this ruin my reputation. I'll go see what the problem is.'; And

so Woody packed a bag with supplies and sailed off down the river

to find the missing logs. It wasn't long before the lush green

landscape of trees he saw around him became a bare region of

stumps and small brush. It was almost as if another logging crew

had been here before him. He was amazed at the number of trees

that had been cut down. It would have taken his entire crew at least

a week and yet all of the stumps looked freshly cut. Woody had to

find out what was happening. A bit further down the river he found

his answer. There in front of him were all of the missing logs.

They had became jammed at the base of the biggest beaver dam he

had ever seen. He gazed up at it in awe of it's shear size. The river

itself was quite wide and this dam covered it from shore to shore.

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