Carpentry mathematics.

One day a messenger came from Böen to ask him if he would go over there for some carpentry work.

If only he were in the carpentry department with Master Brahmin, where there were axes, hammers, chisels, knives, saws, and various pointed instruments.

Many and many a time I have seen Charles Baxter at work in his carpentry-shopjust working, or talking in his quiet voice, or looking around occasionally through his steel-bowed spectacles, and I have had the feeling that I should like to go over and sit on the bench near him.

Carpentry-wood was wanted; he had ransacked Gondelour (Kaddalore) for it, sometimes pulling down a house to get hold of a beam that suited him.