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"'Poh, nonsense! said Henry. Her brother's name was Henry. 'The bridge is strong enough for a four-ox team. I have been over it a dozen times. So he drove on. His sister looked very much terrified when they came upon the bridge, but they went over safely. "'There, said Henry, when they had got over, 'I told you it was safe.
Consequently, neither the buxom maidens, nor the hale old matrons, felt in the least disgraced as they piled promiscuously upon the four-ox sled, which erelong was moving slowly through the mammoth drifts which lay upon the mountain road.
The broad wooden trestle-bridge across the New Hope echoed with hollow verberations beneath the measured tread of two and four-ox teams hauling creaking wains heaped high with meats, fruits, casks of cider, generous wines, and all the richness of that virgin soil. On the summer morning air rose laughter from the youths and maidens coming in afoot.
When you grow up, Billy Louise, you'll know what I mean. So me and Jase packed up we kinda had to do it on the sly, on account uh the bishops and we struck out with a four-ox team. "We kep' a-goin' and kep' a-goin', fer I was scared to settle too clost. I seen how they keep spreadin' out all the time, and I wanted to git so fur away they wouldn't ketch up.
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