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I think they must have become weary at times of so much "choring," judging by a German general's order after his inspection of the second line, in which he said that the battalions in occupation were a lazy lot who were a disgrace to the Fatherland. After the battle began they could add to the defenses improvements adapted to the needs of the moment.
She would look him over and sound him when he worked, choring between kitchen and barn. Ollie had been a poor man's child. Isom had chosen her as he would have selected a breeding-cow, because nature, in addition to giving her a form of singular grace and beauty, had combined therein the utilitarian indications of ability to plentifully reproduce her kind.
"Then money and fine clothes would induce you to do anything, Ursula?" "Ay, ay, brother, anything." "To chore, Ursula?" "Like enough, brother; gypsies have been transported before now for choring." "To hokkawar?" "Ay, ay; I was telling dukkerin only yesterday, brother." "In fact, to break the law in everything?"
When they go out for all day they put on a single blanket, but in choring around camp, getting firewood, cooking, or looking after their precious canvas, they seldom wear anything, braving wind and rain in utter nakedness to avoid the bother of drying clothes.
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