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They'll grow into money every day this summer mostly two-year-olds. Don't you think so?" "That's all owin'," Nathan replied slowly. "Cattle take a lot of cover, an' you ain't usin' straw sheds." "Oh, my sheds ain't cost so very much," John replied easily. "They're substantial too. I don't think much of the straw-shed business.
It was with difficulty that Speug could sustain his rôle until he and his friends got safely within the shelter of the stable-yard, when they plunged into a straw-shed and rolled together in one heap of triumphant mischief. "You're a g-genius, Peter," said Nestie, "and it would be pure waste for you to be a h-horsedealer. You must go on the st-stage.
Ye might be called a heavy weight, and I am a middle weight, but there isn't much in that. We could meet pretty level with the gloves. "Suppose, now, we just went into the straw-shed here, and stripped and fought the matter of six rounds, easy and quiet? There would be no mischief done, and no bad blood left, and that would be the end of the matter. "Magistrate, did ye say, and elder in the Kirk.
'Nor anybody? 'No. 'What have you done with him? 'He's in the straw-shed. I got him in with some trouble, and he has fallen asleep. I thought this would be the explanation of his absence! No stones dressed for Miller Kench, the great wheel of the saw-mills waiting for new float-boards, even the poor folk not able to get their waggons wheeled.
Encircling the courtyard adjoining the house is a broad straw-shed or canopy, beneath which the crowd assembles, young and old, male and female, gathering round small tables, and discussing the fiasci of Orvieto and toast. The game is proceeding all the while in their neighbourhood, the stakes being so many more flasks of the choice wine of Orvieto.
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