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Trenching tools were unhafted and returned to their carriers, equipments were donned again, belts tightened, and shoulder-straps buttoned. Singly, in pairs, and in files we hurried back to the point of assembly, to find a very angry captain awaiting us. "I am very disappointed with to-night's work," he said.
Jasmin, in one part of his poem, compares the ancient patois to one of the grand old elms in the Promenade de Gravier, which, having in a storm had some of its branches torn away, was ordered by the local authorities to be rooted up. The labourers worked away, but their pick-axes became unhafted. They could not up-root the tree; they grew tired and forsook the work.
“Are you bringing me your scythe to haft anew, master?” “No, faith, my scythe is never unhafted.” “Then how can I serve you?” “By following me: your hour is come.” “The devil,” said the great golfer, “could you not wait a little till I have finished this wheel?” “Be it so! I have done hard work today and I have well earned a smoke.” “In that case, master, sit down there on the causeuse.
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