An Irishman who had lately arrived in America and who had never seen a I crosscut sawwas passing along a country road one day when he observed a man and a boy sawing a log with one of those saws Paddy could not understand it and gazed upon the two for a long time and was impressed with the idea that the man was trying to take the saw away I I from the boy He thoughtjthat the latter would not be able to succeed in getting it I away from the former so he ran up behind I be-hind the man and struck him in the back I II of the head knocking him down at the same time shouting to the boy Now i take it and run ye little divil