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Updated: June 2, 2025
Thither the five men made their way one morning and set to work at once, without a word, for every man's task had been settled beforehand. The father and Da'Be took their stand face to face on either side of a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
"How nice it would be to live in a country where there is hardly any winter, and where the earth makes provision for man and beast. Up here man himself, by dint of work, must care for his animals and his land. If we did not have Esdras and Da'Be earning good wages in the woods how could we get along?" "But the soil is rich in these parts," said Eutrope Gagnon.
In face alone had he anything of the tyrant; it was as though the long rigours of the climate and the fine sense and good humour of the race had refined his heart to a simplicity and kindliness that his formidable aspect seemed to deny. Da'Be, also tall, was less heavily built and more lively and merry. He was like his father.
The green of tender grass and young wheat was of a ravishing delicacy, even the dun woods borrowed something from the azure of the sky. Francois came down in the morning looking a different man, in clothes borrowed from Da'Be and Esdras, and after he had shaved and washed Madame Chapdelaine complimented him on his appearance.
The scythes were long since sharpened and ready, and the five men set to work on the morning of the third day. Legare, Esdras and the father cut; Da'Be and Tit'Be followed close on their heels, raking the hay together. Toward evening all five took their forks in hand and made it into cocks, high and carefully built, lest a change of wind should bring rain. But the sunshine lasted.
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