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Well, Abe Shivers was a-workin' fer Tom you've heerd tell o' Abe an' the furriner wasn't more'n half gone afore Tom seed that Abe was up to some of his devilMINT. Abe kin hatch up more devilMINT in a minit than Satan hisself kin in a week; so Tom jes got Abe out'n the stable under a hoe-handle, an' tol' him to tell the whole thing straight ur he'd have to go to glory right thar. An' Abe tol'!
I won't 'cuse nobody; but what I do say is this, that if ever I'm down the garden with a rake or hoe-handle in my hand, and Pete Warboys comes over the wall, I'll hit him as hard as I can, and ask master afterwards whether I've done right." "David," said Tom eagerly, "how soon will the pears be ripe?"
It was the tool a weird hybrid tool, part gun, part rake, part catapult, part curry-comb, fit apparently for almost any purpose, from the business of blunderbuss to the office of an apple-picker. Its handle, which any child could hold, was somewhat shorter and thicker than a hoe-handle, and had a slotted tin barrel, a sort of intestine, on its ventral side along its entire length.
You can't shoot anybody with a hoe-handle, and there is nothing to prove that it was a gun but Jim's word." "Yes, and here poor Pony has been so sick from it all, and Jim Leonard gets off without anything." "You are always wanting the tower to fall on the wicked," said Pony's father, laughing. "When it came to the worst, Jim didn't take the melons any more than Pony did.
Then he heaved his hoe-handle far from him and stretched his arms high over his head like one released from an onerous task. "I'll walk out and let Pat have my job," he said. "Herding goats is dog's work anyhow, and I told you so the first day, Helen Blazes. Hadn't herded 'em five minutes before I knew I wasn't cut out for a farmer." "Go on, Pat; you stay with your goats," Starr commanded gently.
'Settle it as you like, dear, only I'm afraid I couldn't stay very long on account of the dampness, observed Lavinia, cheerfully, as she put a hoe-handle under her feet and wiped the blue mould from a three-legged chair. 'It won't do, so I'll tell her you are an invalid and very particular, said Amanda, with another inspiration, as she led the landlady forth to break the blow tenderly.
Even while he spoke, the woodlander's figure swayed and trembled, the hoe-handle on which he rested wavered and fell, and he, too, would have fallen had not the girl's arms caught and eased his sudden sinking in the furrow he had worked. Her shrill cry of alarm had reached Angelique, always alert for trouble and then more than ever, and had brought her swiftly to the field.
But Perkins, putting on a great spurt, drew up within a hoe-handle length of Tim and there held his place. "All right, Tim, my boy, you can hold him," cried Cameron, as the racers came down upon him. "He can, eh?" replied Perkins. "I'll show him and you," and with an accession of speed he drew up on a level with Tim. "Ah, ha!
At all events he strode from the room, and his anxious wife and the flushed Azuba heard him tramping through the front hall. "What WHAT is he going to do?" faltered Serena; "or say?" Azuba shook her head. "Land knows!" she exclaimed. "I ain't seen him this way since the weasel got into the hen-house. He went for THAT with the hoe-handle. And as for what he said! Well, don't talk to ME!"
Ten days at the hoe-handle, axe, or pitchfork, said an eminent educator lately in substance, with no new impression from without, and one constant and only duty, is a schooling in perseverance and sustained effort such as few boys now get in any shape; while city instead of country life brings so many new, heterogeneous and distracting impressions of motion rather than rest, and so many privileges with so few corresponding duties, that with artificial life and bad air the will is weakened, and eupeptic minds and stomachs, on which its vigor so depends, are rare.
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