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A square trench was dug from the middle of the tent leading out behind it; this was capped with flat stones three or four inches thick, which were abundant on the mountain. At the end of it, on the outside, a chimney of stones plastered with mud was built up, and the whole topped out by an empty cracker-barrel by way of chimney-pot.
Uncle Emsley looked at 'em with one eye shut and says: "'Haven't ye heard the news? "'Cattle up? I asks. "'Willella and Jackson Bird was married in Palestine yesterday, says he. 'Just got a letter this morning. "I dropped them flowers in a cracker-barrel, and let the news trickle in my ears and down toward my upper left-hand shirt pocket until it got to my feet.
When the day's work was over, he said, he would seat himself in the doorway of his hut, surrounded by a group of Moros, and discuss crops and weather prospects, swap jokes and tell stories, just as he might have done with lighter skinned sons of toil around the cracker-barrel of a cross-roads store in New England.
Uncle Emsley looked at 'em with one eye shut and says: "'Haven't ye heard the news? "'Cattle up? I asks. "'Willella and Jackson Bird was married in Palestine yesterday, says he. 'Just got a letter this morning. "I dropped them flowers in a cracker-barrel, and let the news trickle in my ears and down toward my upper left-hand shirt pocket until it got to my feet.
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