I know that log.

I saw him before.

His name is Old Gnarly.

He says he has no idea of coming open for a parcel of boys, even if they _have_ got beetle and wedges.

It takes a man, he says, to split _him_." The boys stood looking at the log with a very grave expression of countenance as they heard these words.
"Is that what he says ?" asked one of them.