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Updated: June 23, 2025
He was of dark complexion, with dark harmonizing eyes, and he wore a closely trimmed black beard of more advanced growth than is usual at his age; this, with his great mass of black curly hair, was some trouble to him in combing and washing out the stone-dust that settled on it in the pursuit of his trade.
But to-night they gave him a different impression, and something like a smile broke through the encrusted stone-dust on their faces; it was the reflection of the bright new kroner that lay in their pockets after the exhausting labor of the week.
A spurt of yellow stone-dust leaped from the cliff a foot or so above the deer's back. Only four hundred? But the deer had made up his mind. He had urgent business on the other side of that slope he appeared to be overdue. I pumped up another shell and drew fine at four hundred. That time his rump quivered for a second as though a great weight had been dropped on it.
When the door behind him softly opened and a young man, whose dress covered with stone-dust indicated his vocation, appeared on the threshold. He hesitated a second, and then stepped into the room. Mr. Slocum turned round with a swift, apprehensive air. "You gave me a start! I believe I haven't any nerves left. Well?" "Mr. Slocum, I have found the man."
"Only those who have been blinded by the stone-dust. But I prepare for sickness during health." "A wise provision. Would we might prepare for sorrow during contentment." "We may lay up comfort for us against the coming of misfortune." "How?" "In choosing friends," she answered. His mind went back to the scene of that morning. Did she speak of the taskmaster? "Thou hast found it so?" he asked.
But to-night they gave him a different impression, and something like a smile broke through the encrusted stone-dust on their faces; it was the reflection of the bright new kroner that lay in their pockets after the exhausting labor of the week.
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