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Updated: May 13, 2025
Long lines of clumsy carts, with high wheels, rumble over the cobblestone pavements with a dreadful clatter. In the open doorways of shops we see men and women manufacturing articles for sale. Some are making chairs, some shoes, some jewelry, some boxes, and, in one place, we see a number of workmen making coffins.
"Two years ago he bought the Cap'n Wegg farm, over by Millville, an' " "Where's Millville?" inquired the man. "Seven mile back in the hills. The farm ain't nuthin' but cobblestone an' pine woods, but " "How big is Millville?" "Quite a town. Eleven stores an' houses, 'sides the mill an' a big settlement buildin' up at Royal, where the new paper mill is jest started.
He turned around and, launching a full-featured, dime-novel sneer, made a loud remark about the right of the lower animals to ride with human beings. In a half-second the workman had dropped his pail and let fly at him. Unprepared, Samuel took the blow neatly on the jaw and sprawled full length into the cobblestone gutter. "Don't laugh at me!" cried his assailant. "I been workin' all day.
They were all built of stone, around three sides of a square, the side opposite the main building being left open. The outer faces of the walls were constructed with thin and regular blocks of sandstone; the inner surfaces were made of cobblestone laid in mortar, and the outer walls were three feet thick.
The island proved to be larger than they had thought and commercially important. They had, the day before, but crossed a neck of it. Soon now they reached the verge of the town and stood on its main artery of traffic; the cobblestone pavement resounded with the rattling of carts and rough native vehicles.
Its rich, ochrous rivulets containing no visible trace of haemorrhage, in spite of that abuse of an adjective were creeping slowly along the interstices of cobblestone paving that still outlived the incoming of Macadam, when Dave and Dolly Wardle ventured out of their archway to renew a survey, begun the previous day, of the fascinating excavation in the main street.
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