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Coles' retort had been more bitter than ever, and Austin picked up the milk-bucket and lantern and walked out of the barn and to the house. Here he strained the milk, put away the lantern, washed himself, and went to his room, never saying a word to the farmer's wife, who looked at him wonderingly because he had come to the house before the chores were finished.
So I got out the old rusty-rimmed banjo, tuned her up, and sat on an overturned milk-bucket, with Dinkie and Bobs and Poppsy and Pee-Wee for an audience. I was leaning back with my knees crossed, strumming out Turkey in the Straw when Peter walked up and sat down between Bobs and Dinkie.
"Wasn't anybody ashamed of it all? Weren't you ashamed yourself, Sally?" "Well, I dunno," Sally said, easing herself from one foot to another and shifting the milk-bucket from her right hand to her left. "Where everybody is goun' one way, you don't know what to think exactly. Jane Gillespie was there, and she went on as bad as the best." "Jane Gillespie?" "Yes.
He spoke aloud those great last words: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to " A whiskered head on the end of a long, corrugated red neck protruded from the smokehouse door. "What say?" it inquired, huskily. "Nun-nothing!" stammered William. Eyes above whiskers became fierce. "You take your feet off that milk-bucket. Say!
The cruel treacherus water wuz a risin' about her round bare ankles as she stood there amongst the rushes with her little milk-bucket on her arm. Her pretty innocent face wuz a lookin' off into the shadows, and the last ray of sunset was a fallin' on her.
Hannah's cow grazing quietly beside the keeper's pony; a brace of fat pointer puppies holding amicable intercourse with a litter of young pigs; ducks, geese, cocks, hens, and chickens scattered over the turf; Hannah herself sallying forth from the cottage-door, with her milk-bucket in her hand, and her little brother following with the milking-stool.
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