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Updated: April 30, 2025
"We must not venture out," the boy said, "unless the scoundrels turn their attention to the windlasses and the gear." So his men had to grind their teeth in rage and look on helplessly. As was expected, the rioters presently came back to the big shed, one of them, evidently the leader, advancing with a felling-axe. "Keep back, rascal!" shouted George.
S S had emigrated to Canada while quite a youth, and was thoroughly acquainted with the backwoods, and with the use of the felling-axe, which he wielded with all the ease and dexterity of a native.
At an appointed time the carpenter came with his staff of helpers and learners. Even now their only tools are a felling-axe, a hatchet, and a small adze; and there they sit, chop, chop, chopping, for three, six, or nine months it may be, until the house is finished. Their adze reminds us of ancient Egypt.
The man who was given a felling-axe immediately set about scraping up weeds, while the grinning warrior armed with a spade incontinently hacked at a hoary tree with Gladstonian ardour. "The stupid inertness of the puzzled negro," says B.-P., "is duller than that of an ox; a dog would grasp your meaning in one-half the time." But B.-P. did not despair of his men, neither did he ill-treat them.
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