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"Have ye been to town in the nicht, or anything like that lately?" "No, Dannie, dear, I ain't," sneered Jimmy, setting his hat on the back of his head and testing the corn-cutter with his thumb. "This ain't Casey's, me lad. I've no more call there, at this minute, than you have." "It is Casey's, juist the same," said Dannie bitterly. "Dinna ye know the end of this sort of thing?"
One day I went to father's and inquired for him. Mother said he was down in the field cutting corn. I went to him; he had a splendid field of corn and was cutting it up. The sweat was running off from him. I told him it was not necessary for him to work so hard and asked him to let me take his corn-cutter, as though I was going to cut corn.
Jack! sing out! gasped his lordship again. 'Oh, you scandalous, hypocritical, rusty-booted, numb-handed son of a puffing corn-cutter, why don't you turn your attention to feeding hens, cultivating cabbages, or making pantaloons for small folk, instead of killing hounds in this wholesale way? roared Jack; an inquiry that set him foaming again.
After the tale was printed the advertising manager of the corn-cutter factory got Hugh to go with him one day to Tom Butterworth's farm. Many bushels of corn were brought out of the corn cribs and a great mountain of corn was built on the ground at the edge of a field. Back of the mountain of corn was a corn field just coming into tassel. Hugh was told to climb up on the mountain and sit there.
"But what do you expect will make the happiness of France?" cried Gazonal. "Equality of citizens and cheapness of provisions. We mean that there will be no persons lacking anything, no millionaires, no suckers of blood and victims." "That's it! maximum and minimum," said Gazonal. "You've said it," replied the corn-cutter, decisively. "No more manufacturers?" asked Gazonal.
He thought of the work on which he had been engaged all day and then of the woman he had made up his mind he could under no circumstances win. As darkness came on he went into the country, and at nine returned along the railroad tracks past the corn-cutter factory. The factory was working day and night, and the new plant, also beside the tracks and but a short distance away, was almost completed.
Somebody had run a great knife like a scythe or a corn-cutter through her. And I never see a boy cry like Mitch did. He ran back and told Zueline and she and all the children came out and most of us cried. Then Mr. Miller came out, and Mrs. Miller, and Mr. Miller said he believed Doc Lyon had done it that he had seen him in the alley in the afternoon. And Mitch said he'd kill Doc Lyon.
It's so awful, I can't begin to tell you!" Dannie's face was ashen. "Jimmy, dear auld fellow," he said, "how long has this been going on?" "A million years," said Jimmy, shifting the corn-cutter to the hand that held his hat, that he might moisten his fingers with saliva and rub it across his parched lips. "Jimmy, dear," Dannie's hand was on Jimmy's sleeve.
Resolved upon the question, That this act of the corn-cutter was an absolute invasion of the city's charter in the representative forehead of Isaac. Resolved, That the evil counsellors about the corn-cutter are popishly affected and enemies to the State.
Then his picture was taken. It was sent to newspapers all over the West with copies of the biography cut from the Cleveland paper. Later both the picture and the biography were used in the catalogue that described the McVey Corn-Cutter. The cutting of corn and putting it in shocks against the time of the husking is heavy work.
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