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Updated: May 25, 2025
There was a sort of box placed near the tree, the bottom of which was about two feet square. It had a back next the tree, and two sides, but it had no front or top. In fact, it was almost precisely like a wheelbarrow without any wheel, legs, or handles.
Presently he heard a more orderly clatter of wooden shoes and he saw several of the soldiers, who had not yet gone ashore, hurry to the rail. He did not dare to do that himself, but as he walked he ventured to verge a little toward the vessel's side, and saw below several men in tattered, almost colorless uniforms, marching in line along the brick street, each with a wheelbarrow.
But he began to realize that he was exhausting the learning opportunities of this particular place and kind of work, and so one night deep down in the mine, when for sudden lack of ore-cars or power or some other essential, work was held up for the last half hour of his shift, he went off into a warm corner, curled himself up in a nice clean wheelbarrow and slept away the last half hour of his pick and shovel experience.
"You find me changed," said Eben, dolefully. "No, I should recognize you anywhere." "I don't mean that. I have sunk very low," and he glanced pathetically at the wheelbarrow. "If you refer to your employment, I don't agree with you. It is an honest business." "True, but I never dreamed when I stood behind the counter in Boston, and waited on fashionable ladies, that I should ever come to this."
"'Do you think it would be unfriendly of me if I said I was busy? he inquired in a shy and timid voice. "'Well, really, answered the Miller, 'I do not think it is much to ask of you, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow; but of course if you refuse I will go and do it myself.
We could bridge our small rivers with logs and be flood-bound when the rains descended. We could live by wheelbarrow transit like the Chinaman and leave to some braver race the task of belting the world with railroads and bridging the seas with iron boats. Nobody compels us to stand shoulder to shoulder and fight off nature's calamities as the French fought off their oppressor at Verdun.
“But I want the wheelbarrow to play with.” “I know you do; but you would take a great deal more solid and permanent satisfaction in such a thing, if you were to use it for doing some useful work.” “When shall I learn to work, father?” said Rollo. “I have been thinking that it is full time now. You are about six years old, and they say that a boy of seven years old is able to earn his living.”
She had beaten him off she had or God had routed Death, driven him from the dream. For it was a dream to her still, and she thought she could never be able to comprehend the magic reality of it, even when at last her man, "Djack," came back to prove the blessed miracle which held her in the magic of its thrall. "Who’s the guy with the wheelbarrow?" inquired Sticky Smith, rolling a cigarette.
Still would the almond tree and the fountain, the gold dust on the roofs of the houses when the sun was setting, the racing hurry of rain drops down the window-pane, the funny old woman with the red shawl who brought plants round in a wheelbarrow, start her story telling.
Soon after this, dinner was brought in, and Madam Rachel said no more to the boys about malice. After dinner, they went out again to play. Caleb sat down upon the step of the door, eating a piece of bread, while Dwight and David returned to their work of building the mole. They got the wheelbarrow, and loaded it with stones.
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