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We ploughed all the fall for dear life; in winter we thrashed, made and mended tools, went to market and mill, and got out our firewood and rails. As soon as frost was gone, came sowin' and plantin', weedin' and hoein'; then harvest and spreadin' compost; then gatherin' manure, fencin' and ditchin'; and then turn tu and fall ploughin' agin.
"The lady asked me to come up to the Falls and see her," he said softly. "I'm going. The rest of you can take the same train, I reckon she won't stop you from it, and I won't. And who's to stop you from filing? The land's there, open for settlement. At least it was open, day before yesterday." "Well, by golly, the sooner we go the better," Slim declared fussily. "That fencin' kin wait.
It ain't as if we'd got to rake an' scrape an' plan to git a minute alone, as it used to be, now is it? An' after the fencin' 's done, an' the thrashin', an' we've got nothin' on our minds, we'll take both horses an' go to Star Pond. Come, now! Be a good girl!" The world seemed very quiet because Letty was holding silence, and he looked anxiously down at the top of her head.
Don't see no signs of tillin'. He ain't fencin', nor goin' to fence, as near as I can find out." "Cattle?" "No. Nor horses." "Hogs, then?" "No." "Damn it! maybe it's sheep!" and the red flush rose in the bully's dark cheeks. "Don't think so. Seems like he's after somethin', but what it is I can't make out."
Along in the spring, he was down helpin' me to lay stone fence, it was when we was fencin' off the south pastur' lot, and we talked pretty nigh all day; and it re'lly did seem to me that the longer we talked, the sotter Seth grew. He's a master-hand at readin'; and when he heard that your remarks on Dr.
I thought of my early boyhood, of the hard life of 'grubbin'' and 'milkin'' and 'fencin'' and 'ploughin'' and 'ring-barkin'', &c., and all for nothing. The few months at the little bark-school, with a teacher who couldn't spell. The cursed ambition or craving that tortured my soul as a boy ambition or craving for I didn't know what for! For something better and brighter, anyhow.
You know that fence was all done up in the spring, but that cussed breachy cow o' Tolman's hooked it down; an' if I wait for him to do it well, you know what he is!" "Oh, you can put off your fencin'!" cried Letty. "Only one day! Oh, you can!"
There was no "blowin time" there, you may depend. We plowed all the fall for dear life; in winter we thrashed, made and mended tools, went to market and mill, and got out our firewood and rails. As soon as frost was gone, came sowin and plantin, weedin and hoein then harvest and spreadin compost then gatherin manure, fencin and ditchin and then turn tu and fall plowin agin.
He had not seen it for a year, having spent the year in Washington and Boston with Ashley, his brother-in-law, who had been elected to Congress. "Yes, I've laid out a good deal of money durin' the last three years. I've paid out three hundred dollars f'r fencin'." "Um h'm!
Then add two sections of rough land around the Cliffs, en that's hit. The Barrows never did much fencin'. Jist a bresh fence around the truck patch en a fairly good corral at the stables is about all. The cows are down thar by the spring. We'll turn the bulls out en go down en count 'em." While Landy was engaged in the requested task Davy took hasty survey of the surroundings.
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