The Axeman

Make a Start

When the pioneers moved into the Old West they found a vast land full of swamps and forests.

Each family had to try to carve a homestead out of the wilderness.

Families were left to their own resources and many had little in the way of tools and equipment.

One day the marshall of the county discovered a homesteader hacking away at a huge tree with a little hand axe.

'What are you doing?" he asked, astonished.

"I am clearing the forest' came the reply.

"But you will never clear the forest with that little axe" said the marshall.

"Maybe, maybe not" said the farmer, "but I can make a start with it, can't I?".