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Updated: May 29, 2025
About two o'clock we stopped in an opening in a pine wood and ate our lunch. We had the good fortune to hit upon a charming place. A wood-chopper had been there, and let in the sunlight full and strong; and the white chips, the newly-piled wood, and the mounds of green boughs, were welcome features, and helped also to keep off the wind that would creep through under the pines.
"I trust," said Carmen, timidly, when they had for the fourth time regarded in rapt admiration an abominable something by some Dutch wood-chopper, "I trust I am not keeping you from your great friends:" her pretty eyelids were cast down in tremulous distress: "I should never forgive myself. Perhaps it is important business of the State?" "Oh, dear, no! THEY will come again, it's THEIR business."
This, as you may imagine, made his Majesty look rather undignified, and dignity is very important to every royal personage. At last a wood-chopper in the mountains made a head out of wood and sent it to the King.
Most of the men discovered great accuracy of eye in bringing some object in range between them and their enemy, and the only two of the besiegers, who were left in plain sight of the besieged, were Captain Hollister on one side, and the wood-chopper on the other.
Indeed, man himself is graceful in his unconscious and direct employments: the poise of a fisherman, for instance, the play of his arm, the cast of his line or net, these take the eye as do the stealthy movements of the hunter, the fine attitudes of the wood-chopper, the grasp of the sailor on the helm.
The wood-chopper was very much delighted with all this, and sat there pleasantly reflecting upon his good fortune in possessing so useful a servant, when the ranger of the forest came along. The latter, who was a great lord, was much surprised when he saw the trees lying there. "How is this?" asked the ranger, whose name was Woodmount. "At this time yesterday these trees were standing.
"Scissors to mend! to mend! to mend!" The monotonous calls of London hawkers are a strange mixture of sounds at one moment attractive, at another repelling; they are, perhaps, more like the cry of a bird in distress than anything else. Rhoda looked at her wood-chopper as the knife-grinder came nearer to the house, and as he passed beckoned him, and gave it to him. She made no remark.
Fair play, Billy Kirby stand back make em stand back, boys gib a nigger fair play poss-up, gobbler; shake a head, fool; dont you see em taking aim? These cries, which were intended as much to distract the attention of the marksman as for anything else, were fruitless. The nerves of the wood-chopper were not so easily shaken, and he took his aim with the utmost deliberation.
Probably encouraged by the prospect of a speedy termination to his labor, the wood-chopper resumed his oar, and, under strong excitement, gave a stroke that not only cleared the boat of the net but of the steward at the same instant.
How goes it, how goes it, sheriff? said the wood-chopper; whats the good word in the village? Why, much as usual, Billy, returned Richard. But how is this? where are your four kettles, and your troughs, and your iron coolers? Do you make sugar in this slovenly way? I thought you were one of the best sugar-boilers in the county.
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