one o'clock
One team did not get off so early , neighbor Sylvester 's . He was to start two hours later and draw up to camp the heaviest part of our supplies , consisting of half a barrel of pork , two bushels of potatoes , a peck of dry beans , a hundredweight of corned beef and two gallons of molasses . Twelve miles of our way that morning was by a trodden winter road , but the last four miles , after crossing Lurvey 's Stream , had to be broken through three feet of snow in the woods , giving us four hours of tiresome tramping . We reached the lot at one o'clock , and during the afternoon set up the horse-power on the lake shore , at the foot of the slope where the white birch grew . We also contrived a log slide , or slip , down which the long birch trunks could be slid to the saw and cut up into four-foot bolts . For our plan now was to fell the trees and `` twitch '' them down-hill with teams to the head of this slip . By rolling the bolts , as they fell from the saw , down an incline and out on the ice of the lake , we would remove them from Mrs. Lurvey 's land , and thereby comply with the letter of the law , by aid of which she was endeavoring to rob us and escheat our rights to the birch .