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Updated: July 17, 2025
Besides my barn-chores, and all the wearin' cares I have mentioned, I have five acres of potatoes to hoe and dig, a barn to shingle, a pig-pen to new cover, a smoke-house to fix, a bed of beets and a bed of turnips to dig, ruty bagys, and four big beds of onions to weed dumb 'em! and six acres of corn to husk. My barn-floor at this time is nearly covered with stooks.
In the midst of this mournful spot was a decayed and aged little "frame" house with but one room, one window, and no ceiling it had been a smoke-house a generation before. Nicodemus was given this lonely and ghostly den as a bedchamber. The village smarties recognized a treasure in Nicodemus, right away a butt to play jokes on. It was easy to see that he was inconceivably green and confiding.
In preparation for the trip he had built a little "smoke-house" near the beach, and here he smoked considerable quantities of meat deer-meat, beef from a wild steer which he was so fortunate as to shoot during the third week of their stay at the bungalow, and a good score of hams from the wild pigs which rooted now and then among the beech growth half a mile downstream.
Now maybe we may eat." "I've got something to tell you," hissed Ricky as the missing member of the clan banged the screen door behind him. Having so aroused Val's curiosity, she demurely went around the table to pour the coffee. "How's the carriage house?" Val asked. "Sam thinks he can fix it with some of that lumber piled out back of the old smoke-house." Rupert reached for a piece of toast.
"As I was sayin', that hoss was perfeckly astonishin'. On the day of which I was speakin'. I was ridin' him down yer by the creek, clost by the corn-field, and I was jest about to wade him in, when, all of a suddent-like, he " Mrs. "ARE you goin' to fetch that ham from the smoke-house, or ARE you goin' to set there jabberin' and go without your supper?
For it had been settled, when the biggest brother came in, that if she would try her best to keep the cattle in the meadows so that the smoke-house could be finished, that very day her birthday would be changed from December to June. As soon as the little girl reached the open prairie, the big brothers returned to their work on the smoke-house.
William and Johnnie perceived the large person of Mr. Crooper; he was seated upon the ground, his back propped obliquely against the smoke-house, though this attitude was not maintained constantly. Facing him, at a little distance, a rugged figure in homely garments stood leaning upon a hoe and regarding George with a cold interest.
He felt guilty, sneaking, disgraced; he felt that the literal Devil had first tempted him near the house, then all suddenly with his own hunger pangs and thoughts of his starving family swept him into the smoke-house to steal. But he had consented to do it; he had said he would take flour too, and he would, he was so obstinate!
We finished the smoke-house this afternoon, and, having secured the new victim we were going to slay, tied him up all night. This time it was Tommy. I had brought him originally from Victoria, and he had been out on my first expedition.
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