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When this war shall be over a war during which not much, if any, under a million of American citizens will have been under arms it will not be easy for all who survive to return to their old homes and old occupations. Nor does a disbanded soldier always make a good husbandman, notwithstanding the great examples of Cincinnatus and Bird-o'-freedom Sawin.
Then Dannie, relying on the strength of his line thought he could land the fish, and steadily drew it toward him. Jimmy's reel began to sing louder, and his line followed Dannie's. Instantly Jimmy went wild. "Stop pullin' me little silk thrid!" he yelled. "I've got the Black Bass hooked fast as a rock, and your domn clothes line is sawin' across me. Cut there! Cut that domn rope! Quick!"
I don't want him." "Wal, I'll put him to chasin' varmints with the hounds. An' say, son, this outfit is bad. You savvy it's bad. You can't run that bunch. The only way you can handle them is to get up early an' come back late. Sayin' little, but sawin' wood. Hard work." Jack Belllounds did not evince any sign of assimilating the seriousness of his father's words. "I'll show them," he said.
Afterwards, Aunt Sally explained, for she had seen Ninian's amused survey of her "boy," that: "John can no more carry a tune than he can fly, and I'd rather hear him sawin' his boards than tryin' to sing. But he feels it's his duty to help the others along by singing at it and sort of keepin' Gabriell' in countenance, seems if. Sweet, ain't it?"
For a few moments there was a sound of a saw, and when it ceased, a harsh, querulous voice commenced again: "A-a-h" it would seem that the man thus given to soliloquy often began and finished his sentences with a vindictive and prolonged guttural sound like that here indicated "Miserable hand at sawin' wood! Why don't you let some one saw it that knows how?
"'Poor man, says Mis' Pipperidge, 'what can that child that he's got there do towards takin' the care of all that place? It takes a mature woman, she says, 'to tread in Mis' Carryl's shoes. "'That it does, said Mis' Blodgett; and, when things once get to runnin' down hill, there ain't no stoppin' on 'em, says she. "Then Mis' Sawin she took it up.
In the meantime Anderson Crow was preparing to crawl in between the icy sheets at home. Mrs. Crow was "sitting up" with old Mrs. Luce, who was ill next door. "She's a girl with a past," reflected Anderson. "She's a mystery, that's what she is; but I'll unravel her. She had a mighty good reason fer sawin' me off out there to-day. I was gittin' too close home. She seen I was about to corner her.
So come Sunday, between meetin's there warn't noth-in' else talked about; and Huldy saw folks a noddin' and a winkin', and a lookin' arter her, and she begun to feel drefful sort o' disagreeable. Finally Mis' Sawin she says to her, 'My dear, didn't you, never think folk would talk about you and the minister? "'No: why should they? says Huldy, quite innocent.
I pause for an answer. He had once been a schoolmaster and that accounted for his didactic style. 'What are the two great talents of the Yankee? he repeated, his hands clasped before him. 'Doughnuts an' pie, said Uncle Be who sat in a far corner. 'No sir, Mr Walker answered, 'there's some hev a talent fer sawin' wood, but we don't count that.
"I swun!" said Sampson, roughly, as he counted over the bills which the boy placed in his hands, "I told the skipper, comin' down, that you was a born fool to be layin' out your money in this style. Now, I've been thinkin' on't over all the while I've been hammerin' and sawin', and I can't make out, to save my neck, how you're goin' to get any return from this 'ere investment.
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