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Many a sympathizing conference Miss Lucinda held with Israel over the perfections of Piggy, as he leaned against the sty and looked over at his favorite after this last chore was accomplished. "I say for 't," exclaimed the old man, one day, "I b'lieve that cre'tur' knows enough to be professor in a college. Why, he talks! he re'lly doos: a leetle through his nose, maybe, but no more 'n Dr.
Then he gazed about the desolate country where morning wore to night in a sequence of hard chore upon hard chore, and he groaned between his set teeth. Here and there along the way stood deserted houses where the wind searched the interiors through the eyeless sockets of unglazed windows and where the roof-trees were broken and twisted.
But domestic work, even in the early days, as we see from Miss Stilwell's letters, soon included more than the washing of dishes and sweeping of corridors. Every department had its domestic girls, whose duties ranged from those of incipient secretary to general chore girl.
"I reckon I won't let 'em cotch me," said Paul. "Where be you gwine next?" "Down to Cairo, I reckon; though I go wherever the General sends me." "May be you would do a little chore for me, get me some pins, needles, and thread?" "It is mighty skittish business, but I'll see what I can do," said Paul. Having obtained his information, his next business was to get away.
"What's your name, boy?" she demanded, in a tone of authority. But the youngster was not to be startled out of his leisurely regard. An amiable smile upon his unclean face was the preliminary result of the question. "Pete, ma'am," he replied after a moment. "An' around this bum lay-out I mostly reckon to have to do the stunts other folks don't notion." "Chore boy?"
He liked the fun of it at first, but by and by he seemed to get the notion that it was a "chore," and when I whistled for him to go for the cows, he would turn tail and run the other way, and the more I whistled and threw stones at him, the faster he would run. His name was Turk, and I should have sold him if he had not been the kind of dog that nobody will buy.
It's hard to leave her, I know, now that you've seen her, but that's the manly thing to do the only thing to do." "Oh, you're right of course you're right. But I wish I could be of some use to her. I wish I could chore round for the rest of my life, where I could kind o' keep watch over her. I'd be glad enough to play the scullion in her kitchen. But if you're going to take her "
But he didn't care about that, except then he could pay board to Dyer, if Dyer'd let him stay." "An' won't he?" "No; and I don't see as he has any call to, any more 'an you or me." Lizzie Graham plucked at the dry grass at her side. "That's so. 'Tain't one person's chore more 'an another's. But there! If this wa'n't Jonesville, I believe I'd let him stay with me till he finishes up his machine."
Her branch of the Associated Charities is in Laurel Street, not far from our house, you know; and the very day after our last meeting I posted off to get my 'chore. I expected to have to fit work for poor needlewomen, or go to see some dreadful sick creature, or wash dirty little Pats, and was bracing up my mind for whatever might come, as I toiled up the hill in a gale of wind.
For Whinnie had a foot frozen, his third winter on the Yukon, and this, of course, has left him lame. It means that he's not a great deal of good when it comes to working the land, but he's a clever carpenter, and a good cement-worker, and can chore about milking the cows and looking after the stock and repairing the farm implements.
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