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Updated: June 10, 2025
These old French burrs be the best stone; they be hard, but they be mild and takes the peck well. Ponderous as the millstones appear, they are capable of being set so that their surfaces shall grind with extreme accuracy. The nether, called the 'bed stone, is stationary; the upper millstone, or 'runner, revolves, and the grain crushed between the two works out along the furrows to the edge.
A black dog, of the apologetic drooping sort that always has its tail sagging and matted with burrs, crawled out and sidled past Billy with a deprecating wag or two when he caught his unfriendly glance, and shambled over to the door that he might sniff suspiciously the cold air coming in through the crack beneath. Billy eyed him malevolently. "A dog in a line-camp is a plumb disgrace!
He examined them with the care with which a warrior examines his arms before he goes forth to battle for his lady-love and life. The burrs were the ripe August product, as hard as filberts, and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles. Johnny whistled softly a little tune, and went out to find Billy Keogh.
It might be Myra, or it might be some little lost child. Spurred on by sympathy, she bounded over a bed of dead chestnut burrs, waded through the water to the other side of the creek, and struggled up the rocks. Teola Graves, crouched in an attitude of suffering and despair, was seated on the gnarled root of a huge tree. Tessibel watched her for an instant.
One day while his burro was eating quartz and pine burrs Cherokee turned up with his pick a nugget, weighing thirty ounces. He staked his claim and then, being a man of breadth and hospitality, sent out invitations to his friends in three States to drop in and share his luck. Not one of the invited guests sent regrets.
You know, dear friend, what you have been to us, and that to no other man on earth could I speak as I have done to you; but Mark, if things get worse and they will what then? John asked me what we should do if the Southern States did really secede. Things seem to stick in his mind like burrs he was at it again next day." Rivers smiled. "Like me, I suppose." "Yes, Mark.
Margaret, who was engaged to his father, and his sister's wedding-guest, kept on her way without noticing him, and he admitted that he had wronged her on this point. But what was she doing? Why was she stumbling about amongst the rubble and catching her dress in brambles and burrs? As she edged round the keep, she must have got to leeward and smelt his cigar-smoke, for she exclaimed, "Hullo!
Then replacing the earth carefully, he took one of the pieces in his hand, and moistening it with water, set to work. He made little progress. Still the stone did wear the iron, and he felt sure that, by perseverance, he should succeed in wearing off the burrs. All day he worked without intermission, holding a rag wrapped round the stone to deaden the sound.
The four boys regarded each other in silence for a moment. Jack was the first to speak. "How badly are the machines damaged?" he asked. "Mine is all right," Jimmie reported, after a careful examination of his steel steed, "except that a couple of burrs are missing."
He caught a branch full of half-open burrs, and peered eagerly in them till he found one to his mind, and pulled it off regardless of the pricking spines, then came and kneeled at her side, and said, "Now, Annie, dear, look into it carefully. This is nature's oracle. You see two solid, plump chestnuts." "Well?" she said, faintly. "And you see this false, empty form of shell between them?"
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