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"Never thought one way or t'other," he answered. "Jethro never had much to do with the boys. He's always in that tannery, or out buyin' of hides. He does make a sharp bargain when he buys a hide. We always goes shares on our'n."
"These boat-rides are dangerous so early in the year. What I was going to say was: Won't you please ask Hanka yourself? I am not sure I can make her come In regard to this tannery proposition, I think I shall have to hold the matter in abeyance for the present. It will also depend on the lumber quotations to some extent." Ole returned after he had looked up Hanka and invited her.
"I will listen," he said doggedly; "but they will not affect my determination." "I am sure you do not wish to drive me away from Brampton," she continued, in the same low voice, "when I have found a place to earn my living near-near Uncle Jethro." These words told him all he had suspected almost as much as though he had been present at the scene in the tannery shed in Coniston.
There was the village green in the cool evening light, and the flagstaff with its tip silvered by the departing sun. She waved to Rias and Lem and Moses at the store, but she drove on to the tannery house, and hitched the horse at the rough granite post, and went in, and through the house, softly, to the kitchen. Jethro was standing in the doorway, and did not turn.
Among other things he started a chair factory and a tannery, and his active mind was always revolving projects for the increase of business, and, of course, of business profits. But, whilst his hands were full of all kinds of business enterprises, Dr. Robison found abundant leisure for a different kind of occupation.
When the war of 1812 broke out he had practically the only important tannery in the United States, but the war scare and attendant evils led to his failure in 1815. He was now 45 years old with a wife and nine children. He went to work in a factory for day wages to keep his family supplied with the necessities of life.
To be crossed at home, to be birched at school, to work all May-day in the tannery vats, and to be laughed at it was too much. "Ye think that I will na? Well, I'll show ye! 'Tis only eight miles to Warwick, and hardly more than that beyond no walk at all; and Diccon Haggard, my mother's cousin, lives in Coventry. So out upon your musty Latin English is good enough for me this day!
After loading up at the store, Lem Hallowell, instead of heading for Brampton, drove to the tannery house, left his horses standing as he ran in, and presently emerged with a little cowhide trunk that bore the letter W. Following the trunk came a radiant Cynthia, following Cynthia, Jethro Bass in a stove-pipe hat, with a carpetbag, and hobbling after Jethro, Ephraim Prescott, with another carpet-bag.
Just then, heralded by a brightening of the western sky, a girl appeared down the road, her head bent a little as in thought, and if she saw the group by the tannery house she gave no sign. Two of them stared at her Jake Wheeler and Mr. Worthington. Suddenly Jake, implike, turned and stared at Worthington. "Cynthy Ware, the minister's daughter," he said.
VII, ch. xv, two excellent chapters on natural science, 1648-1788, by Paul Tannery; Sir Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science ; Sir Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 3d ed., 2 vols. , an interesting account of the English Deists and of the new political and economic theorists, and, by the same author, English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780 ; J. M. Robertson, A Short History of Free Thought, 3d rev. ed., 2 vols. , a sympathetic treatment of deism and rationalism; C. S. Devas, The Key to the World's Progress , suggestive criticism of the thought of the eighteenth century from the standpoint of a well- informed Roman Catholic.
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