Baptiste had been employed by Captain Sutter to saw lumber with a whipsaw, and had been at work for two years at a place, since called Weber, about ten miles eastward from Coloma.

It was a rough enough place, with its mud-chinked log walls and its floor of whipsawed lumber.

And I thought they were square, till I found They were trying to cross me, the miserable pups, And whipsaw me out of my ground.

Other stories of his deserving of special mention are: A Corner in Farmers (February, 29, 1908, Saturday Evening Post), A Fortune in Smoke (March 14, 1908, Saturday Evening Post), Easy Money (November 14, 1908, Saturday Evening Post), The Triple Cross (December 5, 1908, Saturday Evening Post), Spoiling the Egyptians (December 26, 1908, Saturday Evening Post), Whipsawed!

In 1857 a company of lumbermen from Maine, under a captain named Tarbox, established a camp in the Santa Rita Mountains to whipsaw lumber at one hundred and fifty dollars per thousand feet, and were doing well, as the company bought all they could saw.

He began whipsawing lumber, but after disablement from a gunpowder explosion he found lighter employment in keeping a billiard room.

Late in October there was finished for him on the outer edge of the town, near the bank of a little hill-born stream, a roomy log-house, mud-chinked, with a water-tight roof of spruce shakes and a floor of whipsawed plank,a residence fit for one of the foremost teachers in the Church, an Elder after the Order of Melchisedek, an eloquent preacher and one true to the blessed Gods.

James Edward Grant (A); 14Nov61; R285172. Whipsaw.

Hugh MacNair Kahler (A); 31Mar64; R534844. Whipsawed.

James Edward Grant (A); 14Nov61; R285172. Whipsaw.

Hugh MacNair Kahler (A); 31Mar64; R534844. Whipsawed.

The carpenters were required not only to build houses, barns, sheds and other structures, but also boats, and had to hew out or whipsaw many of the timbers and boards used.

The Astute Reader knows what happens in a Family when Mother and the Only Child put their Heads together to whipsaw the Producer.

High or low, red or black, odd or even, coppered or open, on the corner or let her rip, last turn and in the middle, from soda-card to hock, them brier-whiskered sons-of-guns would whipsaw my poor little bank till there wasn't much left of her but sawdust.