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Updated: July 7, 2025
Dinkey helped out Jenny, and in addition since she took such good care of her pack was intrusted with the fishing-rods, the shot-gun, the medicine-bag, small miscellaneous duffle, and whatever deer or bear meat we happened to have. Buckshot's pack consisted of things not often used, such as all the ammunition, the horse-shoeing outfit, repair-kit, and the like. It was rarely disturbed at all.
Horse-shoeing, cart-mending, plow-repairing, coopering, grinding, and weaving, for all the neighboring farms, were performed here, and slaves were employed in all these branches. "Uncle Tony" was the blacksmith; "Uncle Harry" was the cartwright; "Uncle Abel" was the shoemaker; and all these had hands to assist them in their several departments.
The drill went on, I prompting and correcting: "Now, make believe you are in debt, and eaten up by relentless creditors; you are out of work which is horse-shoeing, let us say and can get none; and your wife is sick, your children are crying because they are hungry " And so on, and so on.
Barbara had bethought herself that it was a pity to get no more pleasure or profit out of the afternoon than just a horse-shoeing! "She's all right!" she cried. Richard imagined she had but started to put her handiwork to the test. They walked back to the old man, and once more she thanked him in such pretty fashion as made him feel a lord of the world.
"Oh! he was ready long ago," said Jem, coming to the rescue. "Frank said he was reading the same books that his brother read in the second year." "Indeed!" said Mr Oswald, smiling at his eagerness. "And you are Jem? You are neither of you such giants as I gathered from Frank, but perhaps the mistake was mine. But when one hears of horse-shoeing and Homer you know one thinks of young men."
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