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Lying may be excusable in a man, but 'tis a terrible bad habit for a boy." "Lor', father, that worn't a lie. I told Mr. S our cow worn't in his peas. Nor more she wor; she was in his wheat." "But she was in the peas all night, boy." "That wor nothing to me; she worn't in just then. Sure I won't get a licking for that?"
The river had fallen to half its height, laying bare new strips of land day by day. From Thebes many barges with wheat were sailing down toward the sea; in Lower Egypt clover and beans had been harvested. Orange and pomegranate trees were covered with blossoms; in the fields earth tillers had sown lupines, flax, barley, and had planted various beans, cucumbers, and other garden products.
The other trees died in great numbers; the gardens perished, and all the grain in the earth. It is impossible to imagine the desolation of this general ruin. Everybody held tight his old grain. The price of bread increased in proportion to the despair for the next harvest. The most knowing resowed barley where there had been wheat, and were imitated by the majority.
But anger turned the Spaniard white as a bit of cambric when, trying to estimate the extent of the destruction and his consequence losses, he noticed that the grain at the bottom of the heap, near the floor, was sprouting from the effects of water, which Max had managed to introduce by means of tin tubes into the very centre of the pile of wheat.
In the years of plenty two sons were born to Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, and then the seven years of dearth began to come. When the people began to cry to the king for bread, he always said, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you do." And Joseph and his helpers began to open the storehouses, and sell wheat to the Egyptians, and to the people of all countries, for the famine was in all lands.
And then, straining her incredulous ears again, she heard the boy murmur something, and she saw him hurriedly and confusedly searching his pockets for the string. "I can't find it," he stammered. "I must have dropped it when I poured out the wheat. I am so sorry I will go to-morrow " "You will go now;" said William, calmly. "The string will be lost by to-morrow.
We are earth-tillers of the heir to the throne, may he live through eternity! and we have paid all our dues: in millet, in wheat, in flowers, and in skins of cattle. But in the last ten days this man here has come and commands us again to give seven measures of wheat to him.
If they are ploughed deep into the ground, they may live there for several years, and will produce a plant when turned up again by the plough or the scuffle. Mr. Hammond tells me that some years ago this field was full of Charlock, and in the early summer there would be more Charlock than wheat to be seen. This is how he got rid of it.
Course a lot of these towns still put up with plank walks, but not for us, you bet!" "Really?" "Gopher Prairie is going to have a great future. Some of the best dairy and wheat land in the state right near there some of it selling right now at one-fifty an acre, and I bet it will go up to two and a quarter in ten years!" "Is Do you like your profession?" "Nothing like it.
At last it was finished, and only knee-high stubble covered his land and that of Maud Barrington, while, for he was one who could venture fearlessly and still know when he had risked enough, soon after it was thrashed out the wheat was sold.
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