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"Know him old Jack Smith? Should think I do." "You do?" cried I, delighted, springing to my feet and knocking over a whole pyramid of loaves. "Oh, I am glad. It's him I want to see." "Is it now?" said the fellow, "and what little game have you got on with him? Going a grave-diggin', eh?" "Grave-digging, no!" I cried. "Jack Smith and I were at school together "
We were waiting for darkness when we could go to our unpleasant work of grave-digging. To-morrow there would be more dead bodies and more graves to dig, and the day after, the same duty, and the day after that, the same.
"Ya," replied the sergeant. After handing over the required sum, the tormented old man was permitted to stop grave-digging and wander around at his pleasure; he knew, however, what was probably in store for him those men were going to submit him to a merciless exploitation. Another day passed by, like its predecessor.
Bigot sat faint and listless in his saddle when Cadet poured out a large cupful of brandy and offered it to him. He drank it eagerly. Cadet then filled and gulped down a large cupful himself, then gave another to the Intendant, and poured another and another for himself until, he said, he "began to feel warm and comfortable, and got the damnable taste of grave-digging out of his mouth!"
My two friends were far into the region of generalities. Their profession was forgotten in their electorship. Politics had engulfed the narrower economy of grave-digging.
Whereon the sounds ceased, and there came a final silence, death seeming to take the singer at his word. As Mr. Penrose looked in the direction from which the voice travelled, he saw a shovel thrown out of a newly-made grave, followed by the steaming head and weather-worn face of old Joseph, the sexton, all aglow with the combined task of grave-digging and singing. 'Why, Joseph, is it you?
Would this large-hearted man turn the keys of his money chest over to me if he knew I were an ex-convict, liable at any moment to be re-arrested for having broken my parole? I was silent so long that he began again. "Looking around for a spade to begin the grave-digging?" he asked, with a sober smile.
"Thirsty work, this grave-digging job," said a lad who used to skate on rollers between the bath-chairs of Brighton promenade. "Can't see much in those shells," said a young man who once sold ladies' blouses in an emporium of a south coast village. "How those newspaper chaps do try to frighten us!" He put his head on one side with a sudden jerk. "What's that? Wasps?"
In those early days, long before the great labor-saving machines came to our help, almost everything connected with wheat-raising abounded in trying work, cradling in the long, sweaty dog-days, raking and binding, stacking, thrashing, and it often seemed to me that our fierce, over-industrious way of getting the grain from the ground was too closely connected with grave-digging.
He hastened down to the house, and brought up a shovel and a pickaxe, and began his unwonted task of grave-digging, delving earnestly a deep pit, sometimes pausing in his toil, while the sweat-drops poured from him, to look at the beautiful clay that was to occupy it.
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