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Updated: May 29, 2025
Googe turned away sad-like, an' then Jim comes home, an' widout a word to his wife, says if they don't strike, because there's a convic' an' a no union man a-workin' 'longside of him in his section, he'll lave an' give up his job here an' it's two hundred he's paid down out of his wages, an' me a-savin' from morn till night on me home an' 't was to be me very own because Jim says no man alive can tell when he'll be dead in the quarries an' the sheds."
"And look at her curls," said a woman admiringly. "They be a-sheenin' like gold to-day. She thinks a deal o' they curls, don't 'ee, Tilly? If anybody axed her for one she'd al'ays say she was a-savin' on 'em up for daddy didn't 'ee, Tilly?"
"I'm a-savin' of us from the wrath to come!" returned the woman, sternly, and swung her axe again. The spigot flew from the whiskey barrel in the corner and the next blow of the axe knocked in the head of the barrel. The acrid smell of liquor filled the place. Not a bottle of liquor was left. The barroom of the Lake View Inn promised to be the driest place in town. Up went the axe again.
"He ain't spendin' his money, that's all. He's a-savin' of it." "Oh, for the heathen," surmised Pollyanna. "How perfectly splendid! That's denying yourself and taking up your cross. I know; father told me."
"I guess my gals will shine as long as the old chist lasts," she would say, "an' I ain't started on 'em yet. I'm a-savin' some for their weddin', bless Gord, if I ever sees a man fitten for 'em."
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