"Let's go in."
"Suits me."
Joe bridled the mules. He drove them to the felled trees and laid his
long chain across the slide. His ax swinging from his hand, Ellis joined
him. They used peavies to roll logs into a compact pile and bound the
chain around them. Knowing that their work would be done as soon as they
had dragged these last logs down to Snedeker's building site, the mules
needed no urging or even driving. Joe looped the reins over the mules'
harness and walked companionably beside Ellis. Glad that the day's work
was over, the younger man slashed restlessly at the icy slide with his
ax.