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We had now dispensed with Bagley's services, a good word from me having secured him work elsewhere. I found that I could not make arrangements for rebuilding the barn before the last of August, and we now began to take a little much-needed rest. Our noonings were two or three hours long.
It is hard for a woman who is hungry for reading to see how much leisure even "hired men" have to read, their winter and rainy days, their long noonings and evenings, and odd bits of time, while she has comparatively none." It seems, then, that it is with women as with men: at the West too few workers for the work, at the East too little work for the workers.
"We give the men their noon meal," she added. "Martha helps me with that." "You give them their dinner! Well, I never! Did you hear that, Abby? She gives them their dinner. Didn't you know men-folks generally bring their noonings in a pail? Land! I don't know how you get hearty victuals enough for all those men. Where do they eat?" "In the new barn," said Lydia, smiling.
The vanquished parson thereafter sullenly spent the noonings in the horse-shed, to which he ostentatiously carried the big church-Bible in order that it might not be at the service of the profaning teachers.
Henry Fuller, of Chicago, in his powerful novel The Cliff Dwellers, uses a still less elegant synonym for "scrap" he talks of a "connubial spat." In the same book I note the phrases "He teetered back and forth on his toes," "He was a stocky young man," "One of his brief noonings," "That's right, Claudia score the profession."
All the summer noonings, too, were spent there. He spoke feelingly of the one that coursed through the hemlocks "loitering, log-impeded, losing itself in the dusky, fragrant depths of the hemlocks."
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