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Alexis and Ivan being light weights passed over the snow safely enough; but Pouchskin, weighing nearly as much as both of them and further loaded with a ponderous wood-axe and his huge gun, to say nothing of sundry well-filled pockets and pouches was more than the crust would carry.
This is the third year in which the house has been in operation. Our last visit was in the early part of August, 1863, when we counted 734 bunches of grapes, weighing from one to seven pounds each, the Syrian being the grape which reached the last figure. Almost as many bunches were thinned out. In some cases too many are left, but they look very fine.
I cannot say I would be a shaveling myself; but surely a monk with the hope of preferment is a nobler calling to a lad of spirit and ambition than to stand out at a door and cry, 'Buy, buy, 'What d'ye lack? to spend youth as a Flat-cap, and drone out manhood in measuring cloth, hammering metals, or weighing out spices?"
I got only a share of it; and you didn't figure I'd stay back there weighing out flour and sugar when there was a gold strike on?" Saunders contrived to master his anger, and merely made a little gesture of resignation.
If any sportsman who may drift out this way, is fond of taking the speckled trout little fellows, weighing from a quarter of a pound down, the same he meets with in the streams of Vermont, in Massachusetts, in Northern Pennsylvania, and. Western New York, let him provide himself with angle-worms, and row to the head of the lake.
My servants had a tent 5 ft. 6 in. square, weighing only 10 lbs., which served as a shelter tent for me during the noonday halt. A kettle, copper pot, and frying pan, a few enamelled iron table equipments, bedding, clothing, working and sketching materials, completed my outfit.
This may easily happen, as the ration party has never any means of weighing the food: it is nearly always served out by guesswork. But sometimes the landladies help in the distribution by bringing out scales and weighing the provisions. One lady in our street always weighed the men's rations, and saw that those under her care got the exact allowance.
Never would she take any more than her due, and never less. But a few days ago, when weighing sugar and tea, a blast of wind upset the scales, and a second allowance met with a similar fate. Sugar and tea littered the pavement, and finally the woman supplied her soldiers from the household stores.
Amoaful was a town capable of containing two or three thousand inhabitants. Great quantities of grain and coarse flour were found here. These were done up in bundles of dried plantain leaves, each bundle weighing from five to fifteen pounds. This capture was of great service to the commissariat, as it afforded an abundant supply of excellent food for the carriers.
The Prior handed it to the Commissioner, who took it, and stood there a moment weighing it in his hand. "A hammer," he said. One of the secretaries rose, and drew from beneath the table a sheet of metal and a sharp hammer; he handed both to Dr. Petre.
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