Crossword-Solution: BACKLOGS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

When it was blazing freely he piled upon it, and in front of the green backlogs, several of the logs of dry wood.

Little was to be done during the short winter day but to attend to the stock, to do the "chores" about the house, and perhaps to haul wood--backlogs and foresticks--to replenish the ravenous fire in the great fireplace.

The fireplace was almost as large as a small room in one of our cramped modern houses, and was broad and deep enough to take in backlogs which were so large and heavy that they could not be lifted, but were drawn in at the door and rolled over the floor to the fireplace.

The prudent father usually kept two extra backlogs, one on each side of the fireplace, ready to be rolled in as the blaze died down; and on these logs the children would sit at night, with a rough slate made from a flat stone, and do their "ciphering," as the study of arithmetic was then called.

Harrison will now attend to his duties and carry out the action of this assembly." After the dishes were out of the way Pat built a huge fire with three great backlogs one above another and slanting back to keep them from rolling down.