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After she had dashed a drop or two from her eyes, she said: "I cannot tell what it's all about. He's always in a ponder, ponder, with his mouth open except when he's grindin' his teeth. I hate to see a man walking about like a haystack. And Robbie used to have so much fun once on a time." The tears were stealing up to Liza's eyes again.
The rich folks warn't a grindin the face o' the poor, an the poor they wuzn't a hatin an a envyin o' the rich, nigh untew blood, ez they is naow, ef I dew say it. Yew rekullec them days, Elnathan, warn't it jess ez I say?" "Them wuz good times, Israel. Ye ain't sayin nothin more'n wuz trew," said Elnathan in a feeble treble, from his seat on the settle.
As the man repeated Jed's question, he drew his hand wearily across his brow; "I I it doesn't much matter, boy. I suppose I must find some place where I can stay to- night. Do you live near here?" "Nope," Jed answered, "Hit's a right smart piece to whar I live. This here's grindin' day, an' I've been t' mill over on Fall Creek; the Matthews mill hit is. Hit'll be plumb dark 'gin I git home.
But before Tom appeared Ruth saw, on one of her excursions into the yard, the old, dock-tailed, bony horse of Jasper Parloe drawing that gentleman in his rickety wagon up to the mill door. "Hi, Jabe!" called Jasper, in his cracked voice. "Hi, Jabe! Here's a grindin' for ye. And for massy's sake don't take out a double toll as you us'ally do.
What good duz it do to scatter a few loaves of bread to the hungry while the Liquor Power and the mills of Monopoly are grindin' out hundreds and thousands of tramps and paupers every year?" Sez Miss Meechim, "the poor ye shall always have with you." "We don't read," sez Arvilly, "of Martha Washington having to feed tramps nor labor riots and strikers in the time of Jefferson.
And when people say that's the accomplished daughter o' the accomplished superintendent of the Devil's Ford claim otherwise known as the Star-eyed Goddess o' Devil's Ford every eye is fixed on the mine, and Capital, so to speak, tumbles to her. And when they sez that the old man excuse my freedom, but that's the way the boys talk of your father, meaning no harm the old man, instead o' trying to corral rich widders grass or otherwise to spend their money on the big works for the gold that ain't there yet should stay in Devil's Ford and put all his sabe and genius into grindin' out the little gold that is there, I sez to them that it ain't your father's style.
I can't look ahead and see jest what they're grindin' out for this brave people and them that conquered 'em, nor Josiah can't. And I took solid comfort in the Hall of Lady Managers seein' how well they managed. In this Exposition there is no seperate place fenced off for wimmen's exhibit. They carry the idee here that good work is equally valuable when done by man or woman.
"Why?" cried Mrs. Trapes bitterly, "I'll tell you why because me an' Hermy an' every one else is bein' squeezed dry t' fill the pockets of a thing as calls itself a man a thievin' beast on two legs as is suckin' our blood, gnawin' our flesh, grindin' the life out of us a great fat man as is treadin' us down under his great boots, down an' down to slavery death an' worse it's such men as him as keeps the flames of hell goin' fat frizzles well, an' so will Mulligan, I hope!"
"What's the matter, Uncle Julius?" inquired my wife, who is of a very sympathetic turn of mind. "Does the noise affect your nerves?" "No, Mis' Annie," replied the old man, with emotion, "I ain' narvous; but dat saw, a-cuttin' en grindin' thoo dat stick er timber, en moanin', en groanin, en sweekin', kyars my 'memb'ance back ter ole times, en 'min's me er po' Sandy."
Shaft's broke an' I can't do no grindin' till to-morrow." "Well, Uncle Billy, we ain't got a pint o' meal in the house," she said. "You jes' got to LEND me some." "All right, honey," said the old man, and he cleared his throat as a signal for Hale.
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