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He delighted in the perch upon the roof, and spent most of his day hours there seated in an arm-chair, the duplicate of that one kept for him in the cabinet over the store-house by the Orontes.
"In our first crop of skins we laid by, at least 450 pounds worth, with more than 50 pounds worth of `castoreum. In our second year we were enabled to do still better; and the produce of that season we estimate at 1000 pounds. Wanting a place to dry and store our furs, we built a new log-cabin, which is the one we are now living in. The old one became our store-house.
Pontiac jogged her husband. "John, wake up! there's somebody trying to get into the smoke-house." "Eh ugh ah! I'm 'sleep ugh." He relapsed again. "John! John! wake up! There is somebody!" "What ugh eh what you say?" "There's somebody getting into the smoke-house." "Well, there's not much there." "There's ever so much bacon and ham. Then there's the store-house open." "Oh, I guess there's nobody."
Close to his own log-house, he said; so close that he had used their dwelling as a store-house for some corn; they must excuse it that night, but he would endeavour to get it taken out upon the morrow.
A steady hum and drone as of some gigantic beehive ascended from the mills, and their combined steam and water power produced a tremor of earth and a steady roar in the air; while a faint dust storm often flickered about the entrance ways. The store-house reeked with that fat, heavy odour peculiar to hemp and flax. It was a lofty building of wide doors and few windows.
Had they done so, they would have been very much surprised to find that Mysticoose was offering to make Sybil his wife, and to give in exchange for her, peltries and robes sufficient to fill the store-house of the fort.
When the store-house was full, its gates had to be torn open and its riches plundered and disseminated by the intellectual starvelings of the North; thus only could the rest of mankind feed on these riches, regain and develope their mental life. What were those intellectual riches of the Renaissance?
But those who were acquainted with the gray rats must have known that it was because the human kind used Glimminge castle as a grain store-house that the gray ones could not rest before they had taken possession of the place. Monday, March twenty-eighth. Early one morning the wild geese who stood and slept on the ice in Vomb Lake were awakened by long calls from the air.
This is, indeed, winter come on with little warning." "It still snows," observed Mary; "not much, indeed, but the sky is very black." "Yes, miss; we shall have some more of it yet," observed Martin. "Mr. Campbell and Henry have gone to the store-house for more shovels, for we must work hard, and clear a footpath, and then get the snow up against the palisades."
The same amount of work on salable goods would have paid big money. Well, when I got home, may I never breathe, if that old ass hadn't taken my sales as evidence of the big demand for the goods and was piling up the store-house with the same stock!"
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