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The cord had slipped again. "This is becomin' terrible," said Adams, with a solemn look. "I'll tell 'ee what, lass; you run round to the smiddy an' tell Thursday that I want him d'rectly, an' look alive, old girl." Mrs Adams hastened out, and scattering the children, soon returned with the desired youth. And a most respectable youth had Thursday October Christian become at that time.
Scarcely, however, had he entered the port, when his horse stumbled and lost a shoe, by which he was not only constrained to stop, but to take him to his father's smiddy, which was in sight when the mischance happened.
Birds and insects were gradually becoming more and more silent and soon afterwards the only sounds that broke upon their ears were the curious metallic notes of the urupongas, or bell-birds; which were so like to the rapid beating of a smith's hammer on an anvil, that it was with the greatest difficulty Barney was restrained from going off by himself in search of the "smiddy."
The door opened slowly to let in a tall, stoop-shouldered man with a long face and long teeth. "Who's the frawg?" he asked in a startled way, with one hand on the door knob. "All right, Smiddy; it ain't a frawg; it's a guy Chris knows. He's taken his uniform off." "'Lo, buddy," said Smiddy, shaking Andrews's hand. "Gawd, you look like a frawg." "That's good," said Andrews.
It was seen in the grave faces of the men who gathered at the "smiddy." It even checked the boisterous play of the bairns as they came in from school. It lay like a cloud on the Cuagh, and heavy on the hearts that made up the little hill-girt community of one hundred souls, or more.
The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away on the other side of the clearing stood the stables, and near them the smiddy. The mountains rose grandly on every side, throwing up their great peaks into the sky.
The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping-camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away on the other side of the clearing stood the stables, and near them the smiddy. The mountains rose grandly on every side, throwing up their great peaks into the sky.
"That's so, Willum," assented Mrs Marrot in a meditative tone. Thus meditating, she was conducted into the smiths' department. Here about 140 forges and 400 men were at work. Any one of these forges would have been a respectable "smiddy" in a country village.
Only from the smiddy, far away, came at times the tink of an anvil. John crept on up the street, keeping close to the wall. It seemed unnatural being there at that hour; everything had a quiet, unfamiliar look. The white walls of the houses reproached the truant with their silent faces. A strong smell of wallflowers oozed through the hot air. John thought it a lonely smell, and ran to get away.
Lunan, the tinsmith, and two women, who had the luck to be in the street at the time, saw him stopping at Dr. McQueen's door, as if about to knock, and then turning smartly away. His hat blew off in the school wynd, where a wind wanders ever, looking for hats, and he chased it so passionately that Lang Tammas went into Allardyce's smiddy to say "I dinna like it.
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