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Doris did not go to school in the morning. There were no broken paths, and boys and men were busy shoveling out or tracking down. "It is a heavy snow for so early in the season," declared Uncle Leverett. "We are not likely to see bare ground in a long while." Doris thought it wonderful.
His mother looked at him despairingly. "Daniel," she said, "thou art pitching food into thy mouth as if thou wert shoveling coals into the oven! Take thy elbows off the table and eat more moderately." Daniel glued his elbows to his side. "Sit up straight," she went on, "or thou wilt grow up as crooked as a ram's horn." Daniel immediately sat up as if he had swallowed the poker.
North of the train, to a din of clanking, pounding and shoveling, a throng of men were laying ties and rails, driving spikes and tightening bolts, in the construction of further short stretches of track.
Like that of Calabria, it enlists the sympathy of the civilized world. It takes time for such a calamity to be realized. "Two miles below San Giuseppe we struck cinders which the soldiers were shoveling, making a narrow road for the refugees. Our wagon driver begged off from completing his contract to take us to San Giuseppe.
The two men were busy for a long while, shoveling away the sand. The object for which they were seeking lay buried some six feet deep, and the work was heavy and laborious, the shifting sand sliding back, again and again, into the hole. But at last the blade of one of the shovels struck upon some hard substance and Levi stooped and brushed away the sand with the palm of his hand.
"Can't you take up that ax and look as if you were ready to use it?" she said. "Oh, no! That is far too much like a waxwork! Hold up your head a little! Now, don't move any more than you can help! I think that will do." Weston stood as he was for the best part of an hour. He felt inclined to wonder why he did it, as he had not found shoveling gravel anything like so difficult.
Lord Cobham, in King James' time, was applauded, and had thirty-five thousand dollars a year, but was afterward execrated, and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained unburied for thirty days, because no one would do the honor of shoveling him under.
The girl laughed, and the laugh set them on good terms with each other. Then she said: "That load is far too heavy for you to climb over these boulders with when you have an injured foot. You can give me the valise, at least." "No," said Weston, resolutely, "this is a good deal easier than shoveling gravel, as well as pleasanter; and the foot really doesn't trouble me very much.
But she did not get up in the night to put an extra chunk of wood in the stove of the down-stairs bedroom. "Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah! Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah!" Old Chris stopped shoveling snow to shake his fist at the yelling children. "Your Mas'll fix you, if you don't stop that screechin'!" And they answered: "Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris! Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris!"
Presently the fireman began shoveling on coal at a terrific rate. Sparks and flame shot from the smokestack of the locomotive. They streaked the night with fire. "Is he trying to kill us?" exclaimed Peggy as another shot winged past. "I hardly think he'd risk that," rejoined Wandering William, "but what he's up to is almost as bad. He's trying to disable the aeroplane."
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