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The governor soon observed that one of these philanthropists rarely extended his saving hand, that the borrower did not come out as naked as the ear of the corn that has been through the sheller, or nothing but cob; and that, too, in a sort of patent-right time. Then there were the labourers of the press to add to the influence of those of religion and the law.
"We have got a new corn sheller," I said, rather timidly. "I don't care about your corn shellers," he answered with a look of scorn. He took a little yellow paper-covered book from his pocket and began to read to himself. I felt thoroughly ashamed of the place and sat near him and, for a time, said nothing as he read. "What's that?" I ventured to ask by and by. "A story," he answered.
In the spring of 1880 there was erected a 25-foot diameter mill at Harvard, Clay County, Neb. After this mill had been running nineteen months, we received the following report from the owner: "During the nineteen months we have been running the wind mill, it has cost us nothing for repairs. We run it with a two-hole corn sheller, a set of 16-inch burr stones, and an elevator.
"They had weavin' looms where they made rugs and things. I used to holp 'em tear rags and sew 'em an' make big balls and then they'd weave those rugs, rag rugs, you know. That's what we had to cover ourselves with. We didn't had no quilts nor sheets not nothin like that." "I 'member well when the war was on. I used to turn the corn sheller and sack the shelled corn for the Confederate soldiers.
Olga Mihalovna began peeping through a crack between two branches. She saw her husband, Pyotr Dmitritch, and Lubotchka Sheller, a girl of seventeen who had not long left boarding-school.
The gas engine which pumps the water runs the corn sheller or the wood saw. The rural telephone spreads like a web over the countryside.
"We didn't durst take any ears of corn, so we took Rose's doll and we put her through the sheller. Rose said we might. And all her buttons came off just like kernels." "So I see," said Mrs. Bunker. "Well, don't do it again." "We won't," promised Laddie. "Here's your doll, Rose," he added, as he picked it up off the floor. Every button had been pulled off in the machine.
The butter, cheese, and bed quilts, were all of the finest texture. Everybody took a first premium. Among the newly patented inventions I noticed "The JOHN MORRISSEY Smasher," "The Swamp Angel Sheller," and a lovely piece of mechanism called "The Just One Mower."
If I ever get to be the head of a family I shall carve turkeys with a corn sheller." "But what broke your Pa up at the roller skating rink," asked the grocery man. "O, everything broke him up. He is, split up so Ma buttons the top of his pants to his collar button, like a by cycle rider.
She worked valiantly, heaping the horses' mangers with hay, carrying cornstalks to the cows and feeding the ravenous pigs and chickens corn on the cob, for there was no time to run the sheller. She had some difficulty in discovering the supplies, and then, when all were served, she discovered that not one of the animals had touched the food. "Too thirsty," she commented wisely.
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