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Then the door opened and the priest came out. "It is finished," he said. "May God pardon the sinner!" and he moved away rapidly towards the house. Alexis spoke a word to his fellow-servants, and these lifted a heavy log from the wood-pile in the courtyard, and carried it into the stable. Then they seized Paul, and in spite of his screams and struggles laid him with his head across the log.
By the time he had gone over the wood-pile into the rain-barrel there wasn't any fight left in him. He didn't even speak till he was safe across the clearing. Then you should have seen him. He has gone down to the village to get help; he is going to teach me what it means to assault an officer of the law; he is going to send me to jail for life."
"I had it yesterday, playing horses on the wood-pile: and then I had it this morning, I believe, when I went up the brook to meet Raymond." "Then you left it up there, I know," said Dwight. "No," said Caleb, "I am sure I put it on my nail." "You did not have it, Caleb," said David, mildly, "when we met you on the bridge." "Didn't I?" said Caleb, standing still and trying to think.
It was instantly answered by a burst of yells and a blaze of fire from every wood-pile, fence, and tree, behind which the fierce Ottawa warriors had been concealed for hours in anticipation of this moment. Before that withering fire the advanced guard, leaving half their number dead behind them, staggered back on the main body, and all recoiled together.
His use is doubled, and no one sixpence begot or born but presently, by an untimely thrift, it is getting more. His chimney must not be acquainted with fire for fear of mischance; but if extremity of cold pinch him, he gets him heat with looking on, and sometime removing his aged wood-pile, which he means to leave to many descents, till it hath outlived all the woods of that country.
She gave the saw to Peter Mink and said: "Now you may saw some wood, to pay me for the food. You'll find the wood-pile behind the house. And you may saw all of it," she added. Peter Mink took the saw and started for the wood-pile. And Jimmy Rabbit followed him. Peter sawed just one stick of wood; and then he said to Jimmy: "Go in and ask your mother if she can't find an old pair of shoes for me."
The children, playing noisily in the back yard on the wood-pile, paused for a moment to gaze with callow interest at them; but the spectacle of "The'dosia's sweetheart" was too familiar to be of more than fleeting diversion, and they resorted once more to their pastime. Mrs.
We forgot all our other interests in the joy of the games which we played thereon at every respite from school, or from the wood-pile, for splitting firewood was our first spring task. From time to time as the weather permitted, father had been cutting and hauling maple and hickory logs from the forests of the Cedar River, and these logs must now be made into stove-wood and piled for summer use.
"Well, that's all right, now," said Colonel Manysnifters, flaring up, "we don't expect you Northerners to feel as we do about it! We " "Come, come, Manysnifters," said Senator Bull pacifically, "don't get excited. Don't let the 'nigger in the wood-pile' spoil this occasion. Calm yourself." "Oh, I'm not excited.
Don't talk ter me 'bout no dreams." The whole matter was settled when Buster John cried out from the next room: "What fuss was that you were making in there last night, squealing and squeaking?" The matter was soon explained to Buster John, and after breakfast the children went out and sat on the big wood-pile and talked it all over.
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