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De moon is full now, an' de light is too bright. Four nights from now it will rise purty late, an' den we'll proceed to bizness. We'uns want a leetle light to show us how to git in de bawn an' move 'round. I hear dad callin' me to go plowin', so we'uns must be goin'. Dis is Friday. Come to de house tomorrer evenin', an' we'uns'll settle de partic'lars."
I guess I'll buy a vessel, and leave the lads to do the plowin and little chores, they've growd up now to be considerable lumps of boys." Well, the upshot is, the farm gets neglected, while Captain Cuddy is to sea a drogin of plaister.
Now, it's a whole lot sensibler to land on Young Sandow an' get three hundred for it, than to land on some hayseed an' get hauled up an' fined before some justice of the peace. Now take another squint at Hazel an' Hattie. They're regular farm furniture, good to breed from when we get to that valley of the moon. An' they're heavy enough to turn right into the plowin', too."
In the light of my new adjustment I saw duties plainer, but duty may become a hammer by which affection may be beaten to death. I imagined the plow was going nicely in the furrow, for I wasn't conscious of striking any snags or stones, but Anna said: "A plowman who skims th' surface of th' sod strikes no stones, dear, but it's because he isn't plowin' deep!"
Henry'll holp you Sat'days to cl'ar off breshwood an' cut down trees, so's to let in the sun to dry yer ground in time fer yer spring plowin'. I'll spar' you Rube an' Tom this wintah sometimes, when thar ain't much a-doin' at home, an' you kin hev the ox team, too, to haul off the bresh.
"Only in this case I guess it's me that'll do the plowin'," Billy approved. "Say, Saxon, sing 'Harvest Days. That's a farmer's song, too." After that she feared the coffee was growing cold and compelled Billy to take it. In the helplessness of two broken arms, he had to be fed like a baby, and as she fed him they talked. "I'll tell you one thing," Billy said, between mouthfuls.
Say, look here! About that gap in the fence across Stony Creek field I got to turn a beef herd in there Thursday. TILTON crouching luxuriously on one knee still chewing the straw: Well, now, about that little job I tell you, Mis' Pett'ngill; I been kind o' holdin' off account o' Snell bein' rushed with his final plowin'. He claims MRS. L. J. P. still brightly: Oh, that's all right!
"Says I, 'Yes; I never was so particular about anything in my life as I am about this. I hear they're plowin' up Old Lady Harris' gyarden and throwin' the flowers away, and I want to go over and git a wagon-load o' Johnny-jump-ups.
"Abram looked at me a minute like he thought I was losin' my senses, and then he burst out laughin', and says he: 'Jane, who ever heard of a farmer stoppin' plowin' to go after Johnny-jump-ups? And who ever heard of a farmer's wife askin' him to do such a thing? "I walked up to the plow and begun to unfasten the trace chains, and says I: 'Business before pleasure, Abram.
"I wish to go through the cave," Terry remarked in the crisp, incisive tones a detective might be supposed to employ, "and I should like to have the same guide who conducted Mr. Crosby the time the body was discovered." "That's Pete Moser, he's out in the back lot plowin'," a half dozen voices responded. "Ah, thank you; will some one kindly call him? We will wait here."
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