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Updated: June 28, 2025
They won't try anything yet a while, but they're madder than hornets, and they're sure to move on us later. You just watch." Yet Colden, Wilton and the others were compelled to argue with the men, especially with the boat builders and wood choppers.
There was a great bustle of getting under way as the teams started for the woods, and the choppers, too, went away. Tom hurried to start his big pair of dapple grays, and Nan was glad to bundle up again and run out to watch the exodus. They were a mighty crew. As Uncle Henry had said, the Big Woods did not breed runts.
You will find him foddering forty head of cattle before school-time in the morning, rising at four o'clock for the purpose, and going over the work again after school; and if he does not ride to the woods on Saturdays with the choppers, the farmer calls him "dreadful slack."
At the time we were driving through a piece of timber in which the wood choppers had been at work during the winter, and so earnestly were we talking that he suddenly drew up the horses to find that he did not know where he was.
About half-past eight the choppers went up and joined the company, who were paring apples; the circle was a very large one now, and the buzz of the tongues grew quite furious. "What are you smiling at?" asked Alice of Ellen, who stood at her elbow. "Oh, I don't know," said Ellen, smiling more broadly; and presently added "they're all so kind to me." "Who?"
"We must have scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, diggers, and choppers, from the Blacks of the South whether we allow them to fight for us or not or we shall be baffled and repelled.
She had heard of the free hospitality of the bush choppers, and she thought it was a graceful thing that he should acknowledge his debt to them. She was also pleased that she could lead him on to talk unreservedly. "Now at last you'll be content to rest a while," she suggested. "I dare say you deserve it."
In whole villages there was not a man left, and mothers too marched in that muster armed with choppers and kitchen knives, wild eyed and angry hearted as lionesses robbed of their cubs. From the deep glens and deeper woods of the country of Retz they poured. They disgorged from the caves of the earth whither the greed and rapacity of their terrible lord had driven them.
"Who's gone by?" he persisted. "I didn't hear no bells." "No," said Tira. "I don't believe anybody's gone by, except the choppers. It's a proper nice day for them." The child woke and cried from the bedroom and she brought him out in the pink sweetness of his sleep, got the little tub and began to give him his bath by the fire.
The new cook sat down to peel potatoes and study the mechanics of Kitchencraft. She found much to baffle her in the array of pots and pans, and in the workings of the range. From a cupboard she took out mince-meat choppers, potato mashers, cream whippers, egg-beaters, and other utensils, gazing at them in total ignorance of their functions. Mrs.
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