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Wendell had tied his horses and left the surrey. The horse-shed was empty, quite empty. Betsy stopped short and stood still, her heart seeming to be up in her throat so that she could hardly breathe. After all, she was only ten that day, you must remember. Molly began to cry loudly, hiding her weeping face in Betsy's dress. "What will we do, Betsy! What can we DO!" she wailed.
Her alarm instantly sent the child into a panic. "Oh, Betsy! Betsy! What will we do!" she gasped, as Betsy pulled her along the aisle and out of the door. "Oh, the Wendells can't be gone yet," said Betsy reassuringly, though she was not at all sure she was telling the truth. She ran as fast as she could drag Molly's fat legs, to the horse-shed where Mr.
At dusk he reached a miserable tumble-down house on the edge of a pond. The faithful wife with the sad mouth and the habitual look of anxiety in her faded eyes came to the door at the sound of wheels and went doggedly to the horse-shed to help him unharness. "You did n't expect to see me back to-night, did you?" he asked satirically; "leastwise not with this same horse? Well, I'm here!
I soon found he was its sole occupant as he was its owner some half-dozen large dogs being the only living creatures that were present to bid us welcome. A rude horse-shed was at hand a "loose box," it might be termed, as it was only intended to accommodate one and this was placed at the disposal of my Arab.
He agreed to every word I said admitted that we could not get on another winter without a new horse-shed; and that the east end of the parsonage ought to be shingled this coming summer." "All of which may be; very true, parson, without the deacon's making a will," quietly, and we may now add patiently, observed Mr. Job.
An opening of about two acres in extent, of irregular semi-circular shape, with the creek for its chord, and a worm-fence zig-zagging around its arc scarcely a clearing: since trees bleached and barkless stand thickly over it; a log shanty, with clapboard roof, in the centre of the concavity, flanked on one side by a rude horse-shed, on the other, by a corn-crib of split rails; all three shed, shanty, and crib like the tower of Pisa, threatening to tumble down; near the shanty, a wood-pile, with an old axe lying upon the chop-block; by the shed and crib, a litter of white "shucks" and "cobs;" in front, among the stumps and girdled trees, a thin straggle of withered corn-stalks, shorn of their leafy tops some standing, some trampled down: such was the picture before my eyes, as, with my horse, breast up against the fence, I looked into the clearing of Squatter Holt!
She looked back towards the cabin with a timid glance. We were not observed. The two men had gone into the horse-shed. In her fingers, I noticed the flower of a bignonia. She had taken it from among the golden tresses of her hair. Her cheek rivalled the crimson of its corolla, as she flung the blossom upon the saddle-bow. "Promise me!" I repeated in a more earnest tone.
These sheds protect, of course, both horse and carriage from wind and rain. Few churches had horse-sheds until after the War of the Revolution, and some not until after the War of 1812. In 1796 the Longmeadow Church had "liberty to erect a Horse House in the Meeting House Lane." This horse house was a horse-shed.
You're rather young for this piece of work, but you're trusty you 're trusty!" "Am I to keep watch on the Deacon?" "That's it, and this is my plan: Nick will have had his feed; you 're to drive to the bridge when it gets a little darker and hitch in Uncle Bart's horse-shed, covering Nick well.
There was nowhere else the horse-shed excepted where they could have sheltered! themselves from its torrent; and they were not in the shed. Rosinante was absent from his rude stall saddle and bridle had alike disappeared. I needed no further assurance. They were gone. With a heavy heart, I slid out of my saddle; led my steed under the shed; and then entered the deserted dwelling.
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