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Please give an example line or phrase or expression or excerpt for each, and say why you like it (importance of content? clarity of expression? beauty of articulation? some other combination of reasons?)
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June 6th. The time has come to cut the cabin down to size. First I filed the big saw. Then I trimmed the roof logs to the proper length. I trimmed the gable logs to the slope of the roof, and trimmed the wall logs on all four corners. What a difference! Log ends are all over the ground and the cabin is looking like a once-shaggy kid after a crew cut.
Now I have to start thinking about window and door frames, and the roof poles. I must find a stand of skinny timber for those. That means some prospecting in the standing lumberyards.
My cabin logs have magically changed form in the ten days since I cut the first notch. There are only four full-length logs left and only one of those is halfway decent. Before it's over, there will be a use for all of them.