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The orphanage is high in the Carolina Mountains. I was there in autumn. I wanted quiet isolation to do some troublesome writing. I wanted mountain air to blow out the malaria from too long a time in the sub tropics. I was homesick too, for the flaming of maples in October, and for cornshocks and pumpkins and black-walnut trees. I found them all living in a cabin belonged to the orphanage, half a mile beyond the orphanage farm. When I took the cabin, I asked for a boy or man to come and chop wood for the fire place. I looked up from my typewriter one late afternoon, a little startled. A boy stood at the door and my pointer dog, my companion, was at his side and had not barked to warn me. The boy was probably twelve years old but undersized. He wore overalls and a torn shirt and was barefooted. He said, "I can chop some wood today." "You? But you're small." "Size don't matter chopping wood," he said. "Some of the big boys don't chop good. I've been chopping wood at the orphanage a long time." "Very well, there's the axe. Go ahead and see what you can do."

I went back to work closing the door __________ He began to chop. The blows were rhythmic and steady and shortly I had forgotten him, the sound no more of an interruption than a consisted rain. I suppose an hour and half passed and I heard the boy's steps on the cabin stoop . The boy said, "I have to go to supper now." He said, "I can come again tomorrow." I said, "I'll pay you now for what you have done." thinking I should probably have to insist on an older boy __________ We went together back of the cabin. An astonishing amount of wood had been cut ________ "But you've done as much as a man." I said, "This is a splendid pile."

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