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Just clearing the swing-shelf, he pulled his great figure up to its full height, and standing there like a second Goliath, he said quite softly in that lingo of his childhood that always came back to his tongue's tip in times of excitement: "Just as shuah as yo' bohn that priest will eat his dinner to-day in my cabin, sah; and if yo' going t' make any trouble, just say so now, and we'll get it ovah, and the place cleaned up again befoh our visitors arrive."
In Fair weather, when the sun had been up long enough to get a really good start, it was right warm, but in the shade it was cool, and nights and mornings there was a chill in the air that threatened worse things to come. The harvest is past, the summer is ended. Down cellar the swing-shelf is cram-jam full of jellyglasses, and jars of fruit.
"Potts," he said huskily. The Colonel made no sound. "Potts, measure me out two fingers, will you? Cabin's damn cold." No answer. Mac roused himself, muttering compliments for Potts. When he had bundled himself out over the side of the bunk, he saw the Colonel seemingly dozing by the fire. He waited a moment. Then, very softly, he made his way to the farther end of the swing-shelf.
Kaviak could give points to any spider livin'!" This was on the morning that the Esquimer thought to escape scrubbing, even at the peril of his life, by getting up on to the swing-shelf how, no man ever knew.
This he did and added, "You'll find the beef and some other things on a swing-shelf in the cellar. The potato bins are down there, too. But don't try to get up much dinner. What comes quickest and easiest will suit me. I'm a little backward with my work and must plow all day for oats. It's time they were in. After such a breakfast, I feel as if I had eaten a bushel myself."
The milk that is raising cream is on the back swing-shelf, down cellar. That is all, isn't it?" "Yes'm, and I guess we'll manage all right. Tell Mrs. Dane I'm sorry she's sick. Good-bye." "Everything looks beautiful, and I hope you'll have a pleasant time, dears," was Mrs. Dering's next remark, as she glanced into the parlors on her way out.
They put in a fragrant mattress of spring moss, and on that made up a bed of blankets and furs. More boards were laboriously turned out to make the great swing-shelf to hang up high in the angle of the roof, where the provisions might be stored out of reach of possible marauders.
"I haven't opened my head about it." "No, but you've tried hard enough for five or six days to get Mac to the point where he would come out and show us how to whip-saw. You haven't said anything, but you've you've got pretty dignified each time you failed, and we all know what that means." "We ought to have begun sawing boards for our bunks and swing-shelf a week back, before this heavy snowfall.
The song ended, the Colonel, as toast-master, proposed the health of he was going to say Father Wills, but felt it discreeter to name no names. Standing up in the middle of the cabin, where he didn't have to stoop, he lifted his cup till it knocked against the swing-shelf, and called out, "Here's to Our Visitors, Neighbours, and Friends!"
"It was put away shut up, for I shut it, and even one of us can't get that lid off without a knife or something to pry it." The company looked at the small hands doubtfully. They were none too little for many a forbidden feat. How had he got on the swing-shelf? How "Ye see, crayther, it must uv been yersilf, becuz there isn't annybuddy else."
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