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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I don't wonder mother thinks it seems like some old haunted house we read about. It is just the spot for a lively ghost. I wish I could see one," he thought, as he drove into the side-yard, and, giving his horse to the care of the chore-boy, Sam, who was in the barn, he went stamping into the kitchen. Old Mr.
The chore-boy bent attentively over the ratchet-pin, lifting it delicately to permit another inch of raise, dropping it accurately to enable the men at the bars to seize a fresh purchase. The river's roar deepened. Through the wide sluice-ways a torrent foamed and tumbled.
"You would have to work. You would have to be chore-boy in a lumber camp, and play fiddle for the men when they wanted you to." "I'll do it," said the cripple. "Are you sure you could? You will have to split all the wood for the men, the cook, and the office; you will have to draw the water, and fill the lamps, and keep the camps clean. You will be paid for it, but it is quite a job.
Calling Frank into his corner one evening, he said, "How would you like, my lad, to have some of the out-door work for a change?" The mere expression of Frank's face was answer enough. It fairly shone with gladness, as he replied, "I would like it above all things, sir, for I am a little tired of being nothing but a chore-boy." "Well, I think we might manage it, Frank," said the foreman.
Everyone went, maids, chore-boy, and all, and everyone made the trip on snowshoes all save the trader's wife, who rode in state, in a carriole, hauled by a tandem train of four dogs.
"They ain't fit company for anybody that's got Sawyer blood in their veins, if it's ever so little. I don't know, I'm sure, how you're goin' to turn out! The fish peddler seems to be your best friend, without it's Abijah Flagg that you're everlastingly talkin' to lately. I should think you'd rather read some improvin' book than to be chatterin' with Squire Bean's chore-boy!"
Wallace Carpenter, Shorty, the chore-boy, and Anderson, the barn-boss, picked a dangerous passage back and forth carrying pails of red-hot coffee which Mrs. Hathaway constantly prepared. The cold water numbed the men's hands. With difficulty could they manipulate the heavy chains through the auger holes; with pain they twisted knots, bored holes. They did not complain.
"It's worth five thousand pounds if it's worth a penny." Five thousand pounds! Frank's eyes opened wide at the mention of this vast sum, and he wondered to himself if he should ever be the owner of such a valuable piece of property. Although he had begun as a chore-boy, his ambition was by no means limited to his becoming in due time a foreman like Johnston, or even an overseer like Alec Stewart.
I made a neat toilet a fresh, light summer suit that I flattered myself beat any other set of clothes in Babbletown ordered Joe, our chore-boy, to bring the buggy around in good order, with everything shining; and when he had done so, had the horse tied in front of the store. "Come, my boy," said father, after a while, "it's ten minutes to ten. Never keep the ladies waiting."
After about three hours' poking about over all the farm, they met again outside this building, and I could hear their gabble plainly. The smallest among them, the piping chore-boy, he was for spitting me without mercy; and the milking-lass would toast me with a hay-fork, that she would, and six thousand livres should set her up forever.
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