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The sheep graze in the valleys at some points; in many a little pocket of the dunes I found a potato-patch of about the bigness of a city lot, and on week-days I saw wooden-shod men slowly, slowly gathering in the crop.
Round and round they fought, digging their heels into the ground to keep from slipping, so that you would have vowed there had been a yoke of oxen ploughing a potato-patch. Round and round, up and down, in and out, their arms working like threshing-machines, went the yeoman and the tanner, for a full hour, each becoming more astonished every minute that the other was such a good fellow.
It can't be plantain, after all: there is none growing about here." She asked Mabel about this that evening, and the latter told her husband how Miss Noel was always mixing up the two continents. "I don't despair, Mabel. They will find this potato-patch of ours after a while," he said good-humoredly. But he was less amiable when Mrs. Sykes said at dinner next day, "I should like to try your maize.
Quib must have understood what Mart Penniman said, for he did not halt for one second till he reached the bars that led into that very field. It was more than a quarter of a mile from the potato-patch, but Quib had barked all the way probably out of respect for the size and importance of the coming woodchuck.
Godfrey Evans is hiding in the swamp somewhere, fearing that if he comes home he will be arrested for three offences robbing Clarence, assaulting Don, and trying to steal the eighty thousand dollars, which he still firmly believes to be hidden in the potato-patch.
Pete, who was very dirty, being at work in a potato-patch, responded in a mixture of abasement and appreciation "Good-evenin', Misteh Johnsing." The shimmering blue of the electric arc lamps was strong in the main street of the town. At numerous points it was conquered by the orange glare of the outnumbering gaslights in the windows of shops.
The daily purchases, the daily gossip at the "store," would fill the rest of the morning, as John well knew. He listened in silence to the charges to "keep stiddy to work, and git that p'tater-patch wed by noon;" he watched the departure of his tormentor, and went straight to the potato-patch, duty and fear leading him by either hand.
It was a sad thing for Julius that his mother had set him at the potato-patch, and that Quib had broken his contract with the bone. Quib was not usually so treacherous, but he happened to be on friendly terms with every boy of that hunting-party.
Out in the garden a rabbit had for some time been enjoying himself nightly in the potato-patch, biting off the young sprouts which were just sticking their heads through the ground. When the rabbit heard Tam bark she dashed out of sight behind a burdock leaf and sat perfectly still.
I had fully intended to exercise my inalienable rights and lie in the shade for two hours to-day, but when I caught a glimpse of that little chap in the high chair, and heard his pitiful plea for potatoes, I made for the potato-patch post-haste, as if I were responding to a hurry call. I suppose there is no more heart-breaking sound in nature than the crying of a hungry child.
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