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Updated: May 9, 2025
When he had eaten his breakfast, she took a pouch made of goatskin, with the long hair on it, filled it with bread and cheese, and hung it over his shoulder. Then his father gave him a stick he had cut for him in the wood, and he bade them good-bye rather hurriedly, for he was afraid of breaking down. As he went out he caught up his mattock and took it with him.
These brave people obtained successes against the Roman general Lænas and his successors, Mancinus and M. Æmilius Lepides, as well as Philus and Piso. Scipio even declined a battle, and fought with mattock and spade. A double wall of circumvallation, surmounted with towers, was built around the city, and closed the access to it by the Douro, by which the besieged relied upon for provisions.
Mary's Falls, Upon his loaded wain; He's measuring o'er the Pictured Rocks, With eager eyes of gain. "I hear the mattock in the mine, The ax-stroke in the dell, The clamor from the Indian lodge, The Jesuits' chapel bell! "I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea."
Suddenly he caught the knack of the upward swing, and had the immense satisfaction of bringing the mattock down squarely, buried to the head in the earth. "There!" he said proudly to Mrs. Crittenden, "how's that for fine?" He looked up at her, wiping the sweat from his forehead. He wondered for an instant if she really looked troubled, or if he only imagined it.
He struck his mattock sharply into the soil, bent it to one side, and in the hole thus opened thrust a tiny tree. Then he stepped on the ground close to the seedling and pressed the earth tight about it. "That's all there is to it," he said.
Adister O'Donnell's household, for here was the coffee coming round, and Mattock and Rockney escaping without a scratch. 'There's hardly a day in the year when your scarlet mercenaries are not popping at niggers. Rockney had the flick on the cheek to his manhood now, it might be hoped. 'Our what? asked Mr. Rumford, honestly unable to digest the opprobrious term.
There the mattock had never been struck; but in fancy I saw the small Heaves falling and drifting about a new and smooth-shaped mound and, choking with the turbulent outcry in my heart, I glided stealthily homeward alas! to find the boding shape I had seen through mists and, shadows awfully palpable. I did not ask about Rosalie.
She had slept, she said, and felt quite fresh. Delighted to find her father still asleep, and so peacefully, she pushed her chair close to the bed, and sat down with her hands in her lap. Curdie got his mattock from where he had hidden it behind a great mirror, and went to the cellar, followed by Lina.
The steady sound of the mattock in a neighbouring field was the only token of the common bustling world that lay close around the curious isolation of the hour. It was time that Angel Halsey should be baptized. In his Quaker clothes he waded into the water. His manner now was entirely serene, his face full of joy. A thought was struck wedge-like into Susannah's understanding.
Hearing a clinking sound some distance from the road, as of metal striking stone, Hradzka stole cautiously through the woods until he came within sight of a man who was digging with a mattock, uprooting small bushes of a particular sort, with rough gray bark and three-pointed leaves.
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