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The treaders big, perspiring men, in shirts and tucked-up trousers spattered to the eyes with splatches of purple juice, lean upon their wooden spades, and wipe their foreheads. But their respite is short. The creak of another cart-load of tubs is heard, and immediately the wagon is backed up to the broad open window, or rather hole in the wall, above the trough.
"We'll let her sleep," said the old man, and he went out with slow, languid steps into the sunshine. It was hardly sunshine yet, for though the light lay clear on the hill-tops, all the valley was in shadow, and the mist lay low along the course of Beaver River in great irregular masses, white, but with great "splatches" of colour here and there where the sun touched it.
I always watch them from the boats. They play quite a part in the winter scenes on the river, by day. Their black splatches are seen in relief against the snow and ice everywhere at that season sometimes flying and flapping sometimes on little or larger cakes, sailing up or down the stream.
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