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Updated: May 4, 2025
We all provided ourselves with thick Scotch caps, which would be soft to the head, and at the same time protect it; for we soon found that however it might look or feel at first the "head-work" was the only system for California.
And by this time, to tell truth, I was heartily sick of being Tossed and Tumbled about by the Waves. No man could say that I had not done my Duty during my momentous Voyage round the World. I had worked as hard as any Moose on board the Marquis, doing hand-work and head-work as well.
The blade-makers do their own forging and hammering, and it is from first to last apparently all hand-work. But it is head-work and heart-work too, and the men who wrought at it wrought with such intensity and constancy that they did not once look up or round where we paused to look on.
We know the automobile went that far anyway." At the Carleton ranch, as they passed, they saw, by the lights, that the mountaineer's family were already making ready for the gathering of the riders. A little beyond, they met two men from the Company Head-Work, on their way to the meeting place. Soon, in the gray, early morning light, the tracks of the automobile were clearly seen.
As Wolfert waxed old and rich and corpulent, he also set up a great gingerbread-colored carriage drawn by a pair of black Flanders mares with tails that swept the ground; and to commemorate the origin of his greatness he had for a crest a fullblown cabbage painted on the pannels, with the pithy motto Alles Kopf that is to say, ALL HEAD; meaning thereby that he had risen by sheer head-work.
They read and answered my questions on Scripture better, and sought after the library books with more interest, than any in the other villages; but it was all head-work, no heart; all intellect, no love.
"Pell," he used to say to me many a time, "how the blazes you can stand the head-work you do, is a mystery to me." "Well," I used to answer, "I hardly know how I do it, upon my life." "Pell," he'd add, sighing, and looking at me with a little envy friendly envy, you know, gentlemen, mere friendly envy; I never minded it "Pell, you're a wonder; a wonder."
There weren't many moments in which to think while the judge scribbled away at the warrant, but in what time there was I did a lot of head-work, without, however, finding more than one way out of the snarl. And when I saw the judge finish off his signature with a flourish, I played a pretty desperate card. "You're just too late, gentlemen," I said, pointing out the side window of the saloon.
God had given me a power of head-work, skill for a certain mission, and I was going to perform it. The vast, vague substance on which I was to act was brought before me to-night, palpable, the world, posterity, time; how did I call it? But, somehow, it was not what I had dreamed of since my babyhood up yonder in Concord. Nothing was vast or vague.
"Why can't we have a tree, right here in the shop and have all the children come and get their presents?" "That idea's not a total loss, for a wonder, Joy. It shows a good heart but very little head-work," answered Bet. "Why, Bet Baxter, what's the matter now? Why all the kitty-cat stuff! Take it back!" "Well, I just hate that kind of a Christmas tree.
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