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Updated: May 25, 2025
My aunt, who was then living in a country-town, had gone out shopping one morning, and was standing in the High Street, talking to a lady friend, a Mrs. Gumworthy, the doctor's wife. It was a tremendously big one, as stiff as a wire-fence; and it "set" beautifully.
She got one of those lightning-rod and wire-fence men to show her how to put up an arbor for her trailing roses. Why, when I first saw YOU up on the cornice, I thought you were some other chap that she'd asked don't you know that is, at first, of course! you know what I mean ha, by Jove! before we were introduced, don't you know."
As I stood on the little portico and looked over the valley, I saw what seemed to be a regiment of men coming out of the woods and crossing a field. "'That is the first division of the wire-fence men, said Baxter, 'going to supper. They are divided into three sections, and one gang relieves another, so that the work is kept going all night by torchlight.
Now and again, in every hunt, some man comes up, who is, indeed, more frequently a small proprietor new to the glories of ownership, than a tenant farmer, who determines to vindicate his rights and oppose the field. He puts up a wire-fence round his domain, thus fortifying himself, as it were, in his citadel, and defies the world around him.
"How long," he said, "will it take to get the posts? Not a week," and he hit the ground disgustedly with a piece of stick he had in his hand. "Confound it!" Dad said, "have n't you got any sense, boy? What earthly use would a wire-fence be without any wire in it?" Then we knocked off and went to dinner. No one appeared in any humour to talk at the table.
Then he made a blind rush and knocked out a panel of the yard and got away with Dave. Off he went, plunging, galloping, pig-jumping, breaking loose limbs and bark off trees with Dave's legs. A wire-fence was in his way. It parted like the Red Sea when he came to it he crashed into it and rolled over. The saddle was dangling under his belly when he got up; Dave and the bridle were under the fence.
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