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He found the old gentleman behind the barn, bending over a barrel that was canted over at an angle of seventy degrees, and from which issued a cloud of steam. Scolliver pre was evidently scalding one end of a dead pig-an operation essential to the loosening of the hair, that the corpse may be plucked and shaven. "Good morning, father," said Mr.
As the last syllable shot from his lips he planted a dreadful blow between the old man's eyes, with a shriek that sounded like "You son of a sea-cook!" Mr. Scolliver the elder went down like a stricken beef, and his son often afterward explained that if he had not counted a hundred, and so given himself time to get thoroughly mad, he did not believe he could ever have licked the old man. Mr.
Scolliver the younger was angry, but remembering Jefferson's maxim, he rattled off the number ten, finishing up with "You thief!" Then perceiving himself very angry, he began all over again and ran up to one hundred, as a monkey scampers up a ladder.
Scolliver, approaching, and displaying a long, cheerful smile. "Got a nice roaster there?"
Suddenly the aged party sprang off that barrel with exceeding great haste, as of one who has made up his mind to do a thing and is impatient of delay. The seat of his trousers was steaming grandly, the barrel upset, and there was a great wash of hot water, leaving a deposit of spotted pig. In life that pig had belonged to Mr. Scolliver the younger! Mr.
I once knew a man to square his conduct by this rule, with a most gratifying result. Jacob Scolliver, a man prone to bad temper, one day started across the fields to visit his father, whom he generously permitted to till a small corner of the old homestead.
There was a strangled snort, then a shriek of female agony, and the neighbours came in. Mutual explanations followed, and Mr. Zacharias walked the streets of Grass Valley next day as if he were treading upon eggs worth a dollar a dozen. The Scolliver Pig. One of Thomas Jefferson's maxims is as follows: "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred."
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