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Updated: May 14, 2025
Then, while a robin mounted to a spruce-spire and acted as Job's comforter to all the birds of the garden by singing ah, so plaintively and sweetly! of the dismal days of frost and snow, he "preened" i.e. went over and combed every feather, and tested and retested, cleaned and recleaned, each vital quill.
The house had been cleaned and recleaned until it shone. The fire was kept brilliant, and Joyce donned, in turn, every pretty bit of adornment that she owned. She decked the pictures with ground-pine, and, in the act of preparing the dishes for supper that Gaston liked best, he found her. "Hello, little girl," he called cheerily; "it look like Christmas. It's lucky I have some presents in my pack.
Going to his warbag he took therefrom his spare gun; it had a soft leather scabbard of the kind designed for wearing inside the coat under the left armpit. Very carefully he cleaned and recleaned the already speckless weapon and oiled it anew; he then bestowed a similar attention on the Colts in his belt, and filled both bandolier and belt with fresh cartridges from an unbroken box.
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