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'Look here, Ursula, I shall be late at the Pollocks', and your aunt and Sara have gone on, and there is Tudor in the drawing-room, just arrived with a message from Cunliffe. Of course we must put him up; but the trouble is there is no dinner, and of course he is famished: young men always are. My heart sank as I thought of Jill, but there was no help for it. Max's friends were sacred. Mr.
Among others he came to know the two Pollock families well. Jim Pollock, with his large brood, had arrived at a certain philosophical, though watchful, acceptance of life; but George, younger, recently married, and eagerly ambitious, chafed sorely. The Pollocks had been in the country for three generations. They inhabited two places on opposite sides of a cañon.
The Pollocks put nearly fifty acres in corn, and the whole family helped in the work, including Mrs. Pollock herself, and down to the child next to the baby. This little toddler amused his younger brother, and brought water to the field for the workers. Other families in the neighborhood did the same, Hiram noticed.
"In the summer we do," returned Henry. "Do you think your folks will put me up overnight?" "Why, I reckon so Hiram Strong, did you say your name was? Come right in," added Henry, hospitably, "and I'll ask mother." The Pollocks proved to be a neighborly family and a large one. As Henry said, there was a "whole raft of young 'uns" younger than he was.
While it is true that thousands of our foreign-born citizens are intelligent, honest and patriotic a credit to the land of their adoption it is likewise true that following in their wake we find Huns, Pollocks, Sicillians, "Souwegian" and other undesirable offscourings of the old world, imported by Mark Hanna and other "industrial cannibals" to degrade our labor and debauch our politics.
I know of nothing in its neighbourhood which may endanger a ship, except what is distinctly visible. We here had plenty of several sorts of fish, as silver-fish, snappers, bonitoes, cavallos, pollocks, old wives, and cray-fish of great size.
On the way back to Sycamore Flats Auntie Belle expressed her mind to the young man. "Nobody realizes how things are going with those Pollocks," said she. "George sold his spurs and that Cruces bit of his to get medicine. He wouldn't take anything from me. They're proud folks, and nobody'd have a chance to suspect anything.
But she made no real objection. Whatever Hiram said was right, in the old lady's eyes. They tramped through the snowy fields with a lantern, and found it half-knee deep in some drifts before they arrived at the Pollocks, short as had been the duration of the fall.
A smell of fish where great split pollocks hang drying in the sun of tar and tan and twine where nets and cordage lie spread upon low walls and open spaces gives to Newlyn an odor all its own; but aloft, above the village air, spring is dancing, sweet-scented, light-footed in the hedgerows, through the woods and on the wild moors which stretch inland away.
All the heavy sod of the piece was covered well, and the seed bed was fairly level for corn. Although the Pollocks did not work on Saturday afternoon, Hiram did not feel as though he could stop at this time. Most of the farmers had already planted their last piece of corn. Monday would be the fifteenth of the month.
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