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'Davidson, here's a contribution for your bee, cried Arthur, holding up the prize by its formidable snout. 'For your good wife, with my compliments. Mrs. Davidson was in the thick of preparations for a logging-bee, to be held two days subsequently, and whither all the Cedar Creek people were invited.
And there was lots of swearing, Of boasting and of daring, Of fighting and of tearing, At that logging bee. A logging-bee followed the burning of the fallow, as a matter of course.
Wynn drily; 'such ground must certainly require a peculiar method of working. I daresay you find it incumbent on you to forget all your Irish agriculture. 'Well, I had a good deal to unlearn, answered Robert. 'I hoped to have had our logging-bee before your arrival, and then the farm would have looked tidier; but I could not manage it.
And he bought lots of whiskey, To make the loggers frisky To make the loggers frisky At his logging bee The Devil sat on a log heap, A log heap, a log heap A red hot burning log heap A-grinning at the bee; And there was lots of swearing, Of boasting and of daring, Of fighting and of tearing, At that logging bee A logging-bee followed the burning of the fallow, as a matter of course.
There was a man in our town, In our town, in our town There was a man in our town, He made a logging-bee; And he bought lots of whiskey, To make the loggers frisky To make the loggers frisky At his logging-bee. The Devil sat on a log heap, A log heap, a log heap A red hot burning log heap A-grinning at the bee;
'I tell you what, said he, leaning on the end of his plane, whence a shaving had just slowly curled away, 'I never shall be able to assist at or countenance a logging-bee, for I consider it the grossest waste of valuable merchandise.
I would awake with a start, imagining myself fighting with the flames, and endeavouring to carry my little children through them to the top of the clearing, when invariably their garments and my own took fire just as I was within reach of a place of safety. There was a man in our town, In our town, in our town There was a man in our town, He made a logging-bee;
She would not be asked to go to Parliament by any of us we gave him our word that she was immune from public duties of that nature, for we knew the lady and her limitations, and we knew she was safe safe as a glass of milk at an old-fashioned logging-bee; safe as a dish of cold bread pudding at a strawberry festival.
No ship-launch frame-raising, logging-bee, or dance, was considered complete without him, and while his strength was almost equal to that of any two of his companions, his merry laugh was so infectious that even envy couldn't resist joining in, when public opinion pronounced him 'the best man in the county.
The next great event in our settlers' history was their first logging-bee, preparatory to the planting of fall wheat. The ladies had been quite apprehensive of the scene, for Robert and Arthur could give no pleasant accounts of the roysterings and revelry which generally distinguished these gatherings.
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