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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Say, Cadwalloper, you took a few lessons in sheepherding, a couple of years ago, when you was stuck on that girl remember? Whistle 'em up here and set 'en to work." "You go to the devil," Pink's curved hips replied amiably to his boss. "I've got loss-uh-memory on the sheep business." Whereat Weary grinned and said no more about it.
It is a serious grievance if a gentleman's butler or footman performs his duties about his master's table or carriage in such unformed style as to suggest that his habitual occupation may be ploughing or sheepherding.
Already he was dreading the day when he must mount his horse and ride back into the turbulent life from which she had for a time, snatched him. "I'll hate to go back to sheepherding," he told her one day at lunch, looking at her across a snow-white tablecloth upon which were a service of shining silver, fragile china teacups and plates stamped Limoges.
He was at the moment buttering a delicious French roll and she was daintily pouring tea from an old family heirloom. The contrast between this and the dust and the grease of a midday meal at the end of a "chuck wagon" lent accent to his smiling lamentation. "A lot of sheepherding you do," she derided. "A shepherd has to look after his sheep, y'u know."
Joan's desire for life in the busy places had overbalanced her affection for him. Spat or no spat, she would have come to see him more than once in his desperate struggle against death if she had cared. He could not blame her. There was not much in a man who had made a failure of even sheepherding to bind a maid to him against the allurements of the world that had been beckoning her so long.
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