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At the end of a week things were beginning to wear rather a startling look. He had hunted everywhere for work, descending gradually the scale of quality, until apparently he had sued for all the various kinds of work a man without a special calling might hope to be able to do, except ditching and the other coarse manual sorts and had got neither work nor the promise of it.
At a glance he realized the importance of such things as adequate anchors for the donkey engines; of figuring on straight pulls, horse power and the breaking strain of steel cables; of arranging curves in such manner as to obviate ditching the logs, of selecting grades and routes in such wise as to avoid the lift of the stretched cable; and more dimly he guessed at other accidents, problems and necessities which only the emergency could fully disclose.
Much of the incidental work was also done by tasks, such as ditching, cutting cordwood, squaring timber, splitting rails, drawing staves and hoop poles, and making barrels. The scale of the crop was commonly five acres of rice to each full hand, together with about half as much in provision crops for home consumption.
All but Sonny. He was just mildly surprised at what had happened to the Dom.-C. Sonny, it would appear, was stone deaf. As anticipated, there was another uproar later in the morning when the ditching machine started north across the meadow.
In the South Carolina rice lands, crowds of Irish were imported to do the ditching which the Negroes refused to do and were carried back North when the job was finished.* President Thach of the Alabama Agricultural College has thus described the situation: * The Census of 1880 gave proof of the superiority of the whites in cotton production.
If I meet with a laborer, hedging, ditching, or mending the highways, with his stockings and shirt tight and whole, however mean and bad his other garments are, I have seldom failed, on visiting his cottage, to find that also clean and well ordered, and his wife notable, and worthy of encouragement.
The Egret had completed her curve and with throttled engines was creeping smoothly up to the ditching scow's side. "You don't have to go back," said Payne. "The ditching can wait. I'll have them moor the ditcher here. You can get aboard the tug and I'll have them take you to Key West, to Fort Myers, Tampa any place you want to go. From there you can go anywhere, as far away as you wish to go."
"What's thee at to-day?" asked John, after a pause. "Ditching," said the other laconically, pushing out one foot by way of illustrating the fact. It was covered with black mud far above the ankle, and there were splashes of mud up to his waist his hands, as he proceeded to light his pipe, were black, too, from the same cause.
"'Tis that I'm hoping to do that and no more." "But what do folk say to it? Don't they think you're mad?" "They call me nothing as yet, for I've not told any of what I'm doing." "Just as well, perhaps," said the trees. And they fell to talking of Isosuo, of drains and ditching, the nature of the soil, and all that Olof would have to do.
A short supply of provisions at Hudson, and the ditching of the train on the return trip, made the weary and hungry legislators long remember their pioneer trip over the unfinished Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad.
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