As we grew a little older bringing in the firewood was added to the list of chores and when you grew big enough to chop and split cordwood, usually around the age of 10-12 years, one found the chores around the home were endless.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
"If I had your head I'd sell it for cordwood.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
We prodded him with furnace tools and thumped him with cordwood and rolling-pins and barrel-staves and shovels.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch