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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Is yer husband at home, Mrs. Burchill?" asked Farrington, seating himself on a splint-bottomed chair. "No, sir. He's in the woods chopping for Stephen. I'm afraid he won't be home to-night." "Dear me! that's too bad," and Farrington brought forth the paper from his pocket. "I wanted 'im to do a little favour fer me simply to put his name to this pertition.
It doesn't take much to demolish your bed-place. I'll have it down! I would have the whole hut down, if they would only give me the chance of chopping at it!" A long strip of wood fell to his ax long enough to require cutting in two. He turned it, and stooped over it. Something caught his eye letters carved in the wood. He looked closer. The letters were very faintly and badly cut.
He has been in and out almost every day since I've been alone, to see if I wanted anything. He would insist on chopping wood and splitting kindlings for me, though I told him the Cap'n and Moses had left a plenty to last till they came home."
Every day fresh trees were felled and chopping contests entered into by Johnny and the Dandy; and as the trees fell in quick succession, black boys and lubras armed with tomahawks, swarmed over them, to lop away the branches, before the trunks were dragged by the horses to the mouth of the sawpit.
The sound of chopping grew louder, and a little later the sled turned into a clearing, about which were strewn many big, fallen trees. Mr. Ford's eyes sparkled at the sight. "They haven't hauled out much of my timber," he said. "We are just in time!" A man came running from a group. He held up a warning hand. "You'll have to get out of here!" he cried. "Who says so?" asked Mr. Ford. "Mr.
In my day there was not all this chopping and changing." I pointed out that he might at least express his joy that I was to be at home another day, and fuming and spluttering we returned to the D's. It's rather an anti-climax, after saying good-bye and receiving everyone's blessing, to turn up suddenly once more!
I have many times worked all day in the woods, chopping down trees, with my shoes filled with snow; never had a pair of boots till I was more than twenty years old. Once in two weeks I was allowed to go to church, which opportunity I always improved.
"Him no go to bed," he further stated. Alix stopped the busy chopping that she was carrying on at the end of the kitchen table, and looked at the Chinese boy fearfully. "Mr. Peter not go to bed?" she echoed with a sick heart. "No sleep!" Kow announced, positively. And pleased with her tense interest, he added, "Boss come late. He walkin' on porch." "He came in late and walked on the porch!"
There was ample evidence that the menace was thoroughly understood, for the whole day shift was toiling at the ice, chopping it, thawing it, shoveling it away, although its tremendous thickness made their efforts seem puerile. Everywhere there was manifested a frantic haste, a grim, strained eagerness that was full of ominous meaning.
We gathered every thing together and moved it to the ground where we were going to make our winter quarters, and Uncle Kit and Jim selected the place to build our cabin, and the men all turned to and went to chopping the logs and putting up the cabin. By night the body of the cabin was almost up, but the reader must bear in mind that this was not a very large house.
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