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And all the other male bretheren said the same thing they had got to git to get home to get to work. But some on 'em did have lots of work on their hands, I couldn't dispute it. Why, Deacon Henzy, besides all his cares about the buzz saw mill, and his farm work, had bought a steam threshin' machine that made him sights of work. It was a good machine.
Hardee. "I paid you for it, didn't I?" "Yes, I think so." "Wa'al, then that don't give you no right to interfere with me! This is my hired boy, an' I can do as I please with him." "Oh, no, you can't, Mr. Hardee!" said Mr. Bobbsey quickly. "What's that? I can't? Wa'al, I'll show you! Stand back now, I'm goin' to give him a good threshin'!"
"It was just an accident," he said, putting his hand to his cheek. "One night, in a calm, with a heavy sea running, the main-boom-lift carried away, an' next the tackle. The lift was wire, an' it was threshin' around like a snake. The whole watch was tryin' to grab it, an' I rushed in an' got swatted."
You wouldn't let me give Will Watson the threshin' he deserved, an' I won't let you pass through my creek. I want you to back up your boat, too, and go back where you come from. I own that part of the creek where you are now." "Come now, be reasonable," suggested Mr. Bobbsey. "I stopped you from beating that boy only because you were in the wrong.
My gran'mother Chirgwin, when she was very auld, seed 'em a threshin' corn in a barn up Drift. They was tiny fellers wi' beards an' red faaces, an' they handled the flails cruel clever.
It was the summer time, and she had been paidling in the burn, and sooming feathers and bits o' sticks; I was looking after something that had gaen wrang about the threshin' machine, when I heard an unco noise get up, and bairns screamin'. I looked out, and I saw them runnin' and shoutin' 'Miss Jeannie! Miss Jeannie! I rushed out to the barnyard. 'What is't, bairns? cried I. 'Miss Jeannie!
It would take up their minds, and kep 'em out of vittles and other mischief. It wuz somethin' like providin' a circus for 'em. But howsumever, the Deacon wuz a-workin' at this; he wuzn't quite satisfied with its runnin' gear, and he wuz a-perfectin' this rat trap every leisure minute he had outside of his buzz saw and threshin' machine business, and so he wuz fearful busy.
"Angle's dead against Brown won't let you have John Thomas put him down cellar soon as he saw yer lights; Angie's woman is sittin on the door knittin' she's wors'n him don't let on I give it away I don't want no words with her! Yes, it's grand weather for threshin'; won't you come on away in? I guess yer horse will stand." The old man roared with laughter at his own joke.
't is a gashly auld noise sure enough," criticised Phoebe's friend frankly; "for all the world like a stuck pig screechin', or the hum of the threshin' machine poor faither used to have, heard long ways off." Quavering and quivering, with sudden painful flights into a cracked treble, Billy's effort came to the listeners.
Then, arter a bit, they done the threshin' an' was kickin' the short straw out the grain, which riz a gert dust; an' the piskeys all beginned sneezin'. An' my gran'mother, as was peepin' through the door unbeknown to 'em, forgot you must never speak to a piskey, an' sez, 'God bless 'e, hi men! 'cause that's what us allus sez if a body sneezes.
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