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Updated: June 11, 2025
The next thing which occurred was that a flock of wild geese came along. Then Jarro woke up to business, and warned them with loud shrieks; but in spite of this they flew backward and forward over the shallows several times. They held themselves so high that they were beyond shooting distance; still the farm-hand let himself be tempted to fire a couple of shots at them.
He had been taken ill at one of his own outlying farms, and here he had lain for days a giant bereft of his strength, waiting for death. His only attendant was a farm-hand who had had the disease, but knew nothing of its treatment, who was, moreover, afraid to go near him. Curtis took in the whole situation at a glance as he bent over him. "Why didn't you send for me?" he said.
He saw Jarro, and came and lifted him up. But Jarro, who asked for nothing but to be let die in peace, gathered his last powers and nipped the farm-hand in the finger, so he should let go of him. Jarro didn't succeed in freeing himself. The encounter had this good in it at any rate: the farm-hand noticed that the bird was alive.
War or no war, the soil had to be ploughed and seed sown; so John Cutter came to his tenant and proposed that he should resume his job as farm-hand. Only he must agree to shut up about the war, for while Cutter himself was not a rabid patriot, he would take no chances of having his tenant-house burned down some night. So there was another discussion in the Higgins family.
When her husband came home in the evening Maciek was introduced to him as the farm-hand who had already chopped wood and fed the cattle. Slimak listened in silence. As he was tenderhearted he said, after a pause: 'Well, stay with us, good man. It will be better for us and better for you.
Thomas used him as a servant or hired him out to other farmers. Stray recollections show us young Abraham working as a farm-hand for twenty-five cents the day, probably with "keep" in addition; we glimpse him slaughtering hogs skilfully at thirty-one cents a day, for this was "rough work." He became noted as an axman.
We tore down a convenient and unnecessary shed and utilised from the roof the shingles, the clean portions of which made an admirable substitute for paper. For some days, the morning reports of the brigade were filed on shingles. Lincoln's work as a farm-hand was varied by two trips down the river to New Orleans.
He looked like a farm-hand, with his sweaty shirt, his dusty coat, his begrimed face. And when he kissed Lenore he left a great smear on her cheek. "That's a harvest kiss, my lass," he said, with his big laugh. "Best of the whole year!" "It sure is, dad," she replied. "But I'll wait till you wash your face before I return it. How's the harvest going?" "We had trouble to-day," he said.
Things ain't so bad as they look.... For instance, we're goin' to fool the I.W.W. down here in the valley." "How can you? There are so many," returned Dorn. "You'll see. We're just waitin' a chance." "I saw hundreds of I.W.W. men between her and Kilo." "Can you tell an I.W.W. from any other farm-hand?" asked Anderson. "Yes, I can," replied Dorn, grimly.
He even warned the grebes, although he detested them because they crowded the ducks out of their best hiding-places. But he did not wish that any bird should meet with misfortune on his account. And, thanks to Jarro's vigilance, the farm-hand had to go home without firing off a single shot.
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