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"And it were Robin himself, 'twould be thrice as high I warrant ye. But Robin is too smart to get within the Sheriff's clutches again." The palmer crossed himself. "They say that he is a bold fellow," he whined. "Ha!" said the soldier, "he may be bold enough out behind stumps i' the forest, but the open market-place is another matter." "Who is to hang these three poor wretches?" asked the palmer.
"Over on the far side of the clearing," directed Tod, who was carrying one side of a can with Jerry. "We hauled the Skyrocket over there as the ground is more level and free from stumps." They found the whole crew waiting about the airship, their eager faces lighted up by the flaring flames of one of the gasoline torches.
But it had never happened before in the annals of the school that one side, going in first early in the morning, had neither completed its innings nor declared it closed when stumps were drawn at 6.30. In no previous Sedleigh match, after a full day's play, had the pathetic words "Did not bat" been written against the whole of one of the contending teams. These are the things which mark epochs.
Under Ailie's direction, the children planted potatoes round the stumps of the trees as they were cut down, and made a garden on a bare strip of land on the pond bank. Have got all the boards drawn from Yonge-street. Slow-work with an ox-sled, having to dodge to avoid striking trees. June 22. Jabez helped Brodie to finish his cellar, lining it with red-cedar poles. Great heat.
You are just the man I wish to see. Who cut off this timber, Willy?" indicating the cutting that he and Tom had first discovered. "Not know. Somebody steal um." "That is what Captain Gray says. Perhaps it was cut by a new owner someone who has bought this plot, Willy." The Indian, gazing on the stumps in the clearing with expressionless eyes, shook his head slowly.
"Right east of you wouldn't be a bad idea. The soil's wonderful hereabouts. No stumps, no stones, and the loam's thick. Look in the coulée you can see there how far it is to the clay. That's why she wore down so deep " "Thet arroyo?" "Yes. I believe I'll just pick out a quarter near it. Could plant a store anyway, when the track comes." "Yas, certainly," said Lancaster.
Many of the trees were stripped clean of their foliage, as completely as oaks in an English winter; on others, big strands of twisted fibres marked the scars and joints where mighty boughs had been torn away by main force; while, elsewhere, bare stumps alone remained to mark the former presence of some noble dracæna or some gigantic banyan.
I put no manure whatever on this land, not being the owner, but merely a squatter, and not expecting to cultivate so much again, and I did not quite hoe it all once. I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mold, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there.
The disaster to the British forces near the Monongahela was mainly the result of the strategy of the Indians, who were dispersed in the woods which reechoed to their wild yells and their ever fatal shots fired under cover of trees, rocks and stumps.
Whether anything came of it or not it was something to hope for, something to toil for, something which raised this digging to the plane of the pioneer who joyfully clears his field of stumps and rocks. It swung me from the present into the future. It was a different future from that which had weighed me down when with the United Woollen. This was no waiting game.
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