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"Wait a minute," said Jonas. He listened again, and in a moment he heard the cry again. It seemed to be a cry of distress, but he could not distinguish any words. "It is somebody off upon the pond," said Jonas. "Is the pond out that way?" asked Josey. "Yes," said Jonas, "and I verily believe somebody is out on it, and has lost his way."
There must be subordination. For you see that, in all sorts of work, there are a great many little questions coming up, which are of no great consequence, only they ought to be decided, one way or the other, quick, or else the work won't go on. You act, in your work, like Jack and Jerry, when they ran against the horse-block." "Why, how was that?" said Josey.
The yard was covered with a thin coating of light snow, which made the appearance of it very different from what it had been when they had left it. The cows and oxen stood out still exposed, their backs whitened a little with the fine flakes which had fallen upon them. Jonas went to the shed, and brought out the yoke. "Jonas," said Josey, "I wouldn't go."
In a few minutes, the cry which he had heard first was repeated, in the same tone as before. "They don't hear me," said Jonas. "Hal loo!" cried out Josey, as loud as he could call. There was no answer; but, in a few seconds afterwards, the cry was repeated, as at first. "You see," said Jonas, "that the wind blows this way, and they can't hear us. We must go out after them."
Here a door opened, and Oliver came in, followed by Josey shivering with the cold, and in great haste to get to the fire. "Didn't your father say," said Amos to Oliver, "that he was going with me to-day, to get out the timber for the barn frame?" "Yes," said Oliver, "he is going to build a great barn next summer. But I'm going up into the woods with Jonas, to haul wood. There's plenty of snow."
"You said that the snow wouldn't be a foot deep by midnight," said Josey. "It is coming faster than I thought it would," said Jonas. "It is almost a foot deep now." The road by which the boys were advancing, led along the bank of the brook, until it reached nearly to the shore of the pond, and then it turned off, and went towards the house, at a little distance from the shore.
When at last Madame Voss did go up-stairs, she learned from the maid that M. Urmand had been in bed ever so long; and on going to Marie's chamber, she found her sitting where she had sat before. 'Yes, Aunt Josey, I will go to bed at once, she said.
"A' coorse I must ha' seed her when I worked for th' owld Squire at whiles, but she was a child then, an' I ain't a good hand at rememberin' like Josey be, besides I never takes much 'count of childern runnin' round.
The concerts usually commence with sentimental songs, such as "Home, sweet Home," and the Canadian Boat Song: but the comic always carries off the palm; "Jim along Josey," "Lucy Long," "Old Dan Tucker," and a hundred others of the same character, are listened to delightedly by the crowd of men and boys collected round the fore-hatch, and always ready to join in the choruses.
Now and then he would forget for a moment, and begin to argue; but Josey would submit pretty readily, for he was very desirous that Jonas would let him command next time; and he thought that he would not allow him to command until he had learned to obey. They had the two sleds loaded nearly at the same time, and then went down.
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