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Zack thought the new settlers ought to try and arrive before spring thaw. 'Yer own logging-bee might be 'bout that time, Robert, he observed, while he narrowly watched his kettles and their incipient sugar. 'The fallow looks ready for burnin', I guess. 'Yes, 'tis nearly all chopped and piled; but I'm more anxious to have a raising-bee for my new house.
But they hoped, by limiting the amount of liquor furnished to sufficient for refreshment, though not sufficient for intoxication, that they could in a measure control the evil, as at their raising-bee four months previously. The mass of food cooked for the important day required so much extra labour, as sorely to discompose the Irish damsel who acted under Linda's directions.
'We must have a raising-bee in spring, concluded Robert, after some rumination 'as soon as the snow melts a little. Really, only for such co-operative working in this thinly peopled country, nothing large could be ever effected. Bees were a great device, whoever invented them.
Yet the raising-bee accomplished a great deal, though the Yankee storekeeper was discomfited to find that Davidson of Daisy Burn had undertaken the guidance of the hive; he sulked somewhat in consequence, and also because the consumption of spirits was not, as he had contemplated, to intoxication.
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