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Updated: June 13, 2025
A little distance from the house were the kitchen, bakery, dairy, huge barns for storing the produce, and wood-piles big as houses, the wood being nothing but stalks of the cardoon thistle or wild artichoke, which burns like paper, so that immense quantities had to be collected to supply fuel for a large establishment.
"For thirty-two years hath He lent him to us; and in our hearts . . . ." and he struck his broad breast, "in here, he will never die for you or for me. As for the rest and there was a deal of property of our own and of other folks in these wood-piles well, in time we shall get over that. We may bless the Almighty for what we have left!"
"For thirty-two years hath He lent him to us; and in our hearts...." and he struck his broad breast, "in here, he will never die for you or for me. As for the rest and there was a deal of property of our own and of other folks in these wood-piles well, in time we shall get over that. We may bless the Almighty for what we have left!"
A pale moon had risen, and beneath its light the straight forest roads, interminably long, stretched into the distance; the vaporous masses of young and budding trees hurried past the eye of the traveller; so, also, the white hamlets, already dark and silent; the stations with their lights and figures; the great wood-piles beside the line.
The trees were cut in lengths of about ten feet, and the brush piled in heaps. Then my father, or myself, when I got old enough, followed with the sleigh, and began drawing it, until the wood yard was filled with sound beech and maple, with a few loads of dry pine for kindling. These huge wood-piles always bore a thrifty appearance, and spoke of comfort and good cheer within.
"No," Badger informed her; "but it would be enough to blow up several wood-piles and destroy a lot of clean Monday wash." "There you go joking again," protested the girl, and turned away. "Oh, well," declared Fred Ripley, "we must possess ourselves with patience. We shall soon know the whole truth." "Do you really think so?" asked Purcell.
Some two-story white houses stood back from the road in the retirement of fruit- and shade-trees, and seemed reserved and dignified; other smaller houses were only a few steps removed, and had their wood-piles on the side of the road. One little new cabin in the corner of a strip of woods especially interested Elvira.
And on the way we went down among such wood-piles! whole forests cut up into kindlings and built into solid walls that reached up till the sky looked like a thread of blue sewing-silk between. Tubs like the hold of the Great Eastern, and spouts coming into them like the Staubbach!
But I hope you won't go to telling anybody else in this town that that poor convict ought to be drinking and will have to do it again; because it might get to his ears, you know, and if it did it might break him down, and then he'd go to lying and stealing and loafing and fighting again, and there is no knowing whose chicken-coops and wood-piles would have to suffer.
Of all good things, here in a lonely place, there was nothing could be better than a clock to go all the dark winter through, and strike so prettily at the hours. When the last load was carted down, Isak turned woodman once more, felling and stacking, building his streets, his town of wood-piles for next winter.
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