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The boys are all guying me. Can't I stay a private?" Thanksgiving Dinner with the "Rebel Angel" She Gives Me a World of Good Advice Can an Officer be Detailed To Go And Shovel Dirt? My First Day As A Commissioned Officer.
I may truly say that for nearly twelve months I had been the well-wrought slave not only of the sextant, the compass, and the pen, but of the shovel, the axe, and the needle also. There had been a continual strain on brain and muscle.
In Switzerland the farmer's plow is a wide shovel, which scrapes up and turns over the thin earthy skin of his native rock and there the man of the plow is a hero. Now here, by our St. Nicholas road, was a grave, and it had a tragic story. But we are not used to looking upon farming as a heroic occupation. This is because we have not lived in Switzerland. From St.
"Got some pride, eh?" "I'm always proud when anybody outside Montreal mentions your name! It makes me feel I have a place in the world." "Guess you've made your own place," said the other, pleasure coming to his cheek. "You've got your own shovel and pick to make wealth." "I care little about wealth. All I want is enough to clothe and feed me, and give me a little home." "A little home!
Whose doing this mining, will you tell me? "'O, of course you are, but then I wanted to help you if I could, trying to speak quietly and coming close enough to take the instrument of dispute from his hand if he would let me. "No reply. "'What did you strike, Pa, that made the shovel ring just now? "'Shovel! ring!
Tommy shuddered, but he said sourly, "I wish he would take her back. Do you wish that, too, mother?" The weary woman almost said she did, but her arms they gripped the baby as if frightened that he had sent for it. Jealous Tommy, suddenly deprived of his mother's hand, cried, "It's true what Shovel says, you don't not love me never again; you jest loves that little limmer!"
You be glad to see it wid me," returned the negro significantly, "but not so glad if you go dere wid chains on you legs an' pick or shovel on you shoulder. See dere dey go!" As he spoke a band of slaves was seen advancing up the narrow street. Standing aside in a doorway to let them pass, Foster saw that the band was composed of men of many nations.
A constant succession of crops may be raised, and all through the year he works cheerfully and industriously, finding his ten acres enough and his curious broad hoe dexterously wielded the equivalent of shovel and pickaxe. If ignorant of our inventions, he is intimately acquainted with some American products.
The ground to the east, as far as the wood of la Garenne, beneath Illy village, was held by the 3d division, while the 1st, which had lost heavily at Beaumont, formed a second line. All night long the engineers had been busy with pick and shovel, and even after the Prussians had opened fire they were still digging away at their shelter trenches and throwing up epaulments.
He was never above working with mop, broom and duster indoors, and shovel and rake in the garden; and this trait added much to the appearance of things as well as to the comfort of all concerned in the use of the convent and the church. Though assiduous in every parish duty, his favorite task was the relief of the poor.
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