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Updated: May 16, 2025
I was up there last winter. We put up at a house at Coteau, you know. When I got there the foundation wasn't even begun, and we had a bad time getting laborers. I put in the first day sitting on the ice sawing off spiles." Hilda laughed. "I shouldn't think you'd care much about going back." "Were you ever there?" he asked. "No, I've never been anywhere but home and here, in Chicago."
Picking its way across the rotting spiles of culverts, it pushed on through the unpeopled jungle, all the old railroad gone, rails, ties, the very spikes torn up and carried away, while already the parrots screamed again in derision as if it were they who had driven out the hated civilization and taken possession again of their own.
At mowing time they use molasses and water, nasty stuff only fit to catch flies it spiles good water and makes bad beer. No wonder the folks are poor. Look at them are great dykes; well, they all go to feed horses; and look at their grain fields on the upland; well, they are all sowed with oats to feed horses, and they buy their bread from us: so we feed the asses, and they feed the horses.
"Hello!" he said, at the sight of his facial disarray. "Who's been hitting you?" "That's my affair," said Denton. "Not if it spiles your work, it ain't," said the man in yellow. "You mind that." Denton made no answer. He was a rough a labourer. He wore the blue canvas. The laws of assault and battery, he knew, were not for the likes of him. He went to his press.
A Briton should not take unkindly assertions of independence, even such ruffled independence as Lowell expressed in "The Biglow Papers": I guess the Lord druv down Creation's spiles 'Thout no gret helpin' from the British Isles, An' could contrive to keep things pooty stiff Ef they withdrawed from business in a miff; I han't no patience with such swelling fellers ez Think God can't forge 'thout them to blow the bellerses.
Jackson entered into the question warmly, explaining to me how and where to bore holes with a gimlet, and making two spiles for me to stop the holes with. As soon as he had done so, curiosity induced me to go down to the pool where the cask had been lying so long, in about a foot-and-half water.
Downstream from The Pool, a little way below Shadwell, an uncouth row of dilapidated dwellings in those days stood or, better, squatted, like a mute company of draggletail crones atop a river-wall whose ancient blocks, all ropy with the slime of centuries, peered dimly out through groups of crazy spiles at the restless pageant of Thames-life.
Brooks sent him up here with orders to put him on. I want to see how he takes to real work for awhile." "Look out you don't hurt him," suggested the other. "He don't look very strong to me." "He's strong enough to carry a few spiles, I guess. If Jimmy can carry 'em, he can. I don't intend to keep him at it long."
Occasionally he had overtaken Tony on the road trudging wearily along, but it had never occurred to him to offer him a seat in his waggon or sleigh. "It spiles sich people," he had often said, "to take too much notice of 'em. They have a sartin place in life, an' should be made to keep it."
"Take me, now; I were raised forty-five mile' from a school-house or church-house, and never had no chance to l'arn 'a' from 'izard. And these few pindling present-day district-schools scattered here and yan they only spiles the young uns for work, and hain't no improvement on nothing."
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