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Ward finally consented, and gave the boys a lunch, and they set off to make a day of it. Paying a visit first to the abandoned brick-yard, it was noon when Jack and Alex emerged from the woods at the rear of the deserted old cabin. "So that's it!" exclaimed Jack with keen interest as they went forward. "And up there is the very door you dropped from, I suppose?" "Yes, that is it.
We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, a change takes place in the relations of the races.
Any one who is willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard, or in the laundry, through one or two years, in order that he or she may have the privilege of studying academic branches for two hours in the evening, has enough bottom to warrant being further educated.
And he knew the plan would succeed that, as Big Tony said, a hundred yards from the main-line track the old brick-yard siding embankment was washed out so that the rails almost hung in the air. "Dena we all say," went on Big Tony, "we alla say, Hennessy, he do it. We say we caughta him. See?" Again Alex glanced down, and with hope he saw that some of the Poles were hesitating.
Michael Simeonovitch began his persecutions by compelling the peasants to perform more days of service on the estate every week than the laws obliged them to work. He established a brick-yard, in which he forced the men and women to do excessive labor, selling the bricks for his own profit.
Of course you may search for five years, and even then buy a pig in a poke. Through an agent my brother Nicholai raised a mortgage and bought three hundred acres with a farmhouse, a cottage, and a park, but there was no orchard, no gooseberry-bush, no duck-pond; there was a river but the water in it was coffee-coloured because the estate lay between a brick-yard and a gelatine factory.
At those jobs I have sometimes taken in charge both the field and brick-yard hands. I have been on the plantations in South Carolina, but have never been an overseer of slaves in that state, as has been said in the public papers.
She had five whole shillings left of her money and when Christopher could double that they were to go to the brick-yard and bargain. "Haven't you any at all?" she questioned impatiently. Christopher, who was examining the proposed site, did not answer at once, and she repeated her question. "I have some," he confessed unwillingly. "Well, can't we start with that. You said you hadn't any on Monday.
For the purposes of agriculture, the place was nearly useless, there not being one thousand acres of good arable land in the whole island; but the mountains were perfect mines of treasure in the way of necessary supplies of the sorts mentioned. A brick-yard was immediately cleared and formed, and a lime-kiln constructed.
Joe knocked at the door, and shouted, "Halloo! Is Mr. Clay at home?" The door was opened, and Mr. Clay himself came out. "Halloo, young man! You seem in a hurry; any orders from the squire this morning?" "No, Mr. Clay, but there's a fellow in your brick-yard flogging two horses to death.
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