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Two youngsters left behind, and only a hired woman to look after them, and all the rest. 'I've a statement from her husband, said I, 'that I can submit whether the case be taken up for thorough revision, or an application be made for a pardon. 'I'd like to see that statement, says the Governor. 'Right, said I. 'I'll bring it along tomorrow in visiting hours."
What had they done to have this pack of foolish people worrying over them? Were they all going to take a hand in bringing the youngsters up? Well, anyhow, she pitied them. She smiled at her thoughts as the busy scissors snipped their way round the pattern. These men were too funny. First Toby, now Sandy who next? She started and looked up, her scissors poised in the air.
God bless the youngsters! Who of us with the burden of life's toil and care weighing us down, ever saw a frolicsome group of them, happy in their freedom from trouble and care, and did not wish he might slip his shoulders from under the load of his fifty years and be a boy again?
"Considerate? Not a bit of it!" retorted Jacob Farnum, half indignantly. "Jack Benson, I want to drain the last bit of performance out of you youngsters that I possibly can while we're here. That's why I am going to take some good care of you, also. Right this way, Grant!" The hail was directed at the foreman.
With the seven francs remaining she procured a pair of cotton gloves, a rose for her cap, and some shoes for Claude, her eldest boy. Fortunately the youngsters' blouses were passable. She spent four nights cleaning everything, and mending the smallest holes in her stockings and chemise.
"That's fine, Daddy!" replied Brother gratefully. "Thank you ever so much wait a minute, Daddy " "I'm just saying the good-bye," called Sister, who loved to telephone. "Good-bye, youngsters," said Daddy Morrison, laughing as he hung up the receiver. "Well, for goodness' sake, what are you two doing here?" demanded Louise, coming through the hall with something hidden in her apron.
The other hemisphere, through which the youngsters will go out, is less well fortified: its only wrapper is the texture spun over the eggs immediately after they were laid. The work of spinning, followed by that of tearing, is continued for a whole morning, from five to nine o'clock. Worn out with fatigue, the mother embraces her dear pill and remains motionless. I shall see no more to-day.
How do we know what the youngsters are going to do?" "That indeed is on the knees of the gods," I said as I put the Heine back on the shelf. I looked at my watch. "I must be off to Pleasant Plains," I said. "If you are not going out at once, I should like to return in the afternoon; but I must run now." "I expect we'll be bunkered and out by tea-time," he said, rising.
With the other hand she dealt blows and cuffs, and scratched and punched indiscriminately among the youngsters, so that a sudden panic broke out among these would-be heroes. Each sought to get out of her reach with the greatest alacrity.
The bulk of the enemy got safely within the works and left us outside with piles of French and English dead and wounded for company a sickening sight, an awful sight to us youngsters, for our little ambush fights in February had been in the night, and the blood and the mutilations and the dead faces were mercifully dim, whereas we saw these things now for the first time in all their naked ghastliness.
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