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Updated: May 21, 2025
"You can't dig when the ground's froze hard," Eva said, with literal meaning. "Then I'll take a pickaxe," cried Jim. "You can dig, but who's goin' to pay you for the diggin'?" demanded Nahum Beals. "The idea of a girl's bein' afraid I wa'n't enough of a man to support a wife with an arm like that," said Jim Tenny, "as if I couldn't dig for her, or fight for her."
They all laughed till the tears came when Minturn again appeared dressed for work; but he nonchalantly lighted a cigar and was entirely at his ease. Sue was armed with thick gloves and a pair of pruning-nippers. Minturn threw a spade and pickaxe on his shoulder, and Mr. Banning, whom Sue had warned threateningly "never to be far away," tramped at their side as they went up the lane.
He felt too ashamed to go to the Homestead to look for her; then it occurred to him that she would be across the clearing. And he met her, half-way. She was coming along in the dull glow of the dying fire, the pickaxe over her shoulder.
He felt sick with himself for having hurt her; he resented the misery his conscience was causing him: swiftly he found himself resenting the ungainliness of her figure which, in his morbid mood, seemed his fault too. He hated the unconscious reproach she gave him as she came along, stumbling a little, carrying the pickaxe.
And the first man struck his pickaxe down hard into the ground, and it made the ground grunt, Mnh! And the second man did the same, and the ground gave another grunt, Mnh! And then the third man did the same thing, and so on to the other end of the line. Then the first man was ready again, so that the sound of the pickaxes was as regular as the ticking of the tall clock.
Violent gales assailed us at this time, accompanied by thick fogs, through which, from one end of the platform to the other, we could see nothing. The wind blew sharply from all parts of the compass, and the snow lay in such hard heaps that we had to break it with blows of a pickaxe. The temperature was always at 5 deg. below zero; every outward part of the Nautilus was covered with ice.
The old man thought, "Can it be Cinderella?" and they had to bring him an axe and a pickaxe that he might hew the pigeon-house to pieces, but no one was inside it.
He was not quite dead, and I heard him with his last breath murmur the words: 'Bowani, great goddess, all hail! Then with a rattle in his throat he died. "I had gathered the dying man in my arms, and now beneath the flowing garments, laid flat against the breast, I could feel the shape of something fashioned like a small pickaxe.
No; we can work under the open sky, with spade and pickaxe, and, by the help of blasting, our work will not take long."
Anxiously the garrison within listened to the sounds of work, which became louder and louder as the walls crumbled before the stroke of pickaxe and crowbar. "I shall hold out until the last moment," Walter said to Ralph, "in hopes of relief, but before they burst in I shall sound a parley. To resist further would be a vain sacrifice of life."
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