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Then he put on his cap and overcoat and locked the grille door and the bank door after he had passed each portal. His last chore of the day was always a trip into the basement to make sure that the dying fire in the wood furnace was carefully closed in for the night. The basement stairs led from the rear of the corridor.
"Da" Corbett, with his "other clothes" on and his glasses far down on his nose, sat in another rocking-chair reading the life of General Booth. Peter Rockett, the chore boy, in a clean pair of overalls, and with hair-oil on his hair, sat on the edge of the wood-box twanging a Jew's-harp, and the tune that he played bore a slight resemblance to "Pull for the Shore."
I had in those divvuses as kushti coppas an' heesus as any young Gipsy in Anglaterra good chukkos, an' gads, an' pongdishlers. "An' that mush kurried many a geero a'ter mandy, but he never lelled no bak. He'd chore from his own dadas; but he mullered wafro adree East Kent." Then I lost my money, and said I would play no more, and would keep what I had in my pocket.
Saunders, a weak-lunged, bandy-legged individual, who was officially a general chore man for Pete, but who did little except lie in the shade, reading novels or gossiping, awoke then, and, having a reputation for tender-heartedness, waved his arms and called aloud in the name of peace. "Turn him loose, I tell yuh!
The doctor stayed as long as he could; but the stork was flying at the other end of the township, and he was forced to leave Patsy in charge, with abundant instructions. Soon after his leaving the Dempsy Carters returned without Joseph's parents; they had gone to town and were not expected home until "chore time." "All right," Patsy sighed.
"Well, then, how'd it be done?" asked his uncle, interested in spite of himself, for after his interview with the president of the First National that morning he began to look upon Bob as something more than a chore boy. "Come over to the sand pit with me, Uncle Joe," he replied, "and I'll show you."
All was done for them quite gratuitously on his part, and no laugh was merrier than his. Even the chore boy came in for a share of the Ballards' kindly help, sitting at Mary Ballard's side in the long winter evenings, and conning lessons to patch up an education snatched haphazard and hardly come by. Here comes one of them now, head up, smiling, and happy-go-lucky. "Bertrand, here comes Johnnie.
"Why didn't they use wagons?" asked Elizabeth Ann. "You can't run a wagon unless you've got a road to run it on, can you?" asked Uncle Henry. "It was a long, long time before they had any roads. It's an awful chore to make roads in a new country all woods and hills and swamps and rocks. You were lucky if there was a good path from your house to the next settlement."
Then he scraped the oats out of the bin and poured them into the galvanized-iron can, so that Cap'n Ira could more easily get at the mare's feed. He went to the house afterward to see if there was any other little chore he could do for the old couple before going on to his own home. "You can't do much for us, Tunis, unless you can furnish me a new pair of legs," said Cap'n Ira.
Smith, the livery man at Eureka South, will cash it; and you can take the stage out to-morrow morning." "All right. I reckon we'd better not lose any time." Palmer had already got out pen and ink. It was something of a "chore" for the old man to draw a check. Miners' paralysis was creeping on, and two years later the best he could do was to make his mark.
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