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She was a well made, pretty lookin' girl, but I tell ye 't was like setting a laylock bush to grow beside an ellum tree, and expecting of 'em to keep together. They wa'n't mates.
So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," Last of its timber, they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died.
I'd bate on them gals if it wa'n't that them fellers is naterally longer winded, as the gals 'll find aout by the time they git raound the stake 'n' over agin the big ellum. I'll go ye a quarter on the pahnts agin the petticoats." The fresh-water fisherman had expressed the prevailing belief that the young ladies were overmatched.
"Dear God!" he said, "to think that this glory of the hedge-row this kingdom of song birds should come to the making of pauper coffins and lodging-house furniture!" "Squire must have money; an' folks must have coffins," said Billy. "You can sleep your last sleep so sound in ellum as you can in oak, for that matter."
I ricollect jest how she looked, pretty little thing that she was; and sometimes I can hear her voice jest as plain as I hear that robin out yonder in the ellum tree. Every word was jest like a bright new piece o' silver, and every note was jest like gold; and she was lookin' up through the winder at the trees and the sky like she was singin' to somebody we couldn't see.
"Did ye injy the matein?" he inquired. "Thought it rather dead," I replied. "Faix, 'twas yerself that kilt it." I feared as much. What happened after I left no man will tell, though doubtless the resolutions adopted by the twenty men sitting on the forrums of ellum would vibrate through the Empire, and shake the British monarchy to its iniquitous base.
"Now look at that," as one huge spark after another exploded from the fire and dropped on the bed and the teepee cover. "How can I help it?" "I'll bet Da's best cow against your jack-knife you got some Ellum or Hemlock in that fire." "Well, I have," Yan admitted, with an air of surrender. "My son," said the Great Chief Woodpecker, "no sparking allowed in the teepee.
Besides," she added, looking out of the window, "it would be desertion." George was forced to soothe himself with linking Friars Pardon to the telegraph system of Great Britain by telephone three-quarters of a mile of poles, put in by Whybarne and a few friends. One of these was a foreigner from the next parish. Said he when the line was being run: "There's an old ellum right in our road.
"An Ellefante twice the Bignesse of an Ocks, the Trunke or Probosces whereof can pick up a Needle or roote up an Ellum Tree. Also the Royale Tyger, the same as has slaine and devoured seven yonge Gentoo babes, three men, and two women at the township at Chuttergong, nie to Bombay, in the Eastern Indies.
And he thought mebby I would set out under the slippery ellum makin' ginger cookies or fryin' nut-cakes, in either capacity he said I wuz a study for an artist and would draw crowds. "The wife of Josiah Allen fryin' nut-cakes, what a sound it would have through the world." "No, Josiah," sez I, "I shan't try to fry nut-cakes in a open lot without ingregients or fire."
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