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Updated: May 14, 2025
The Colonial raised his head; and without taking his elbows from the ground took up the bird. "I'll put it into the pot; it'll give it the flavour of something except weevily mealies"; he said, and fell to plucking it. The Englishman took his hat off, and lifted the fine damp hair from his forehead. "Knocked up, eh?" said the Colonial, glancing kindly up at him.
Oh, I won't have none o' y'r weevily wheat, I won't have none o' y'r barley, But have some flour in a half an hour To bake a cake for Charley. "Oh, Charley, he's," etc. Milton was soon in the thick of this most charming old-fashioned dance, which probably dates back to dances on the green in England or Norway.
His tall boots were brilliantly blue and starred with gold at the top, and his pantaloons were tucked inside the tops to let their glory strike the eye. His physical strength and grace and variety of "steps" called forth many smiles and admiring exclamations from the girls, and caused the young men to lose interest in "Weevily Wheat."
Out of doors the indefatigable boys were beginning again on "pom-pom pullaway." Supper over, the young folks all returned to the house across the way, leaving the men of elderly blood to talk on the Grange and the uselessness of the middlemen. Sport began again in the Dudley farm-house by a dozen or so of the young people "forming on" for "Weevily Wheat." "Weevily Wheat" was a "donation dance."
It was good to live under sharp discipline; to be down on the realities of existence by living on bare necessaries; to find how extremely well worth living life seemed to be when one woke up from a night's rest on a soft plank, with the sky for canopy, and cocoa and weevily biscuit the sole prospect for breakfast; and, more especially, to learn to work for the sake of what I got for myself out of it, even if it all went to the bottom and I along with it.
He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward. From his conversation with me I gained much knowledge about Japan, which it was impossible I could have acquired in any other way, and all of which I have embodied in various parts of this narrative.
But I won't have none of y'r weevily wheat, An' I won't have none of y'r barley, But have some flour in a half an hour To bake a cake for Charley. "Oh, Charley, he is a fine young man; Charley, he is a dandy. Oh, Charley, he's a fine young man, F'r he buys the girls some candy.
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