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He remembered seeing this same Jase Vaughn, now riding unsuspectingly toward the loaded rifle, at a corn shucking once. Ralph then thought him a very jolly, amusing fellow. "Now lad now lad!" whispered the old man. "Get down and take your sight. I've seen ye shoot the heads offn squirrels. Just imagine that feller's head is a squirrel's. As for the child " "Grandpa, I will not shoot.
As they came near it they could hear a grinding noise, and then the voice of Laddie called: "Oh, Russ! here come some of the buttons." "Yes! A lot of 'em!" Russ added. "Oh, she's shucking fine, Laddie just like an ear of corn!" "Dandy!" exclaimed Laddie. "It's too bad Rose didn't wait to see what we were doing. This is fun!" "I'm here now! And you just give me my doll!" cried Rose.
Physically he was more fit than he had ever been. The delicate mechanism of his brain was unimpaired. He had no bitterness no illusions. His intellect was acute enough to suggest that in the complete shucking off of illusions lay his greatest peril. Life, as it faced him, the individual, appeared to be almost too grim a business to be endured without hopes and dreams. He had neither.
Hence, too, the necessity for devoting the whole of the afternoon session of each Friday to a "spelling-match." In fact, spelling is the "national game" in Hoopole County. Baseball and croquet matches are as unknown as Olympian chariot-races. Spelling and shucking are the only public competitions.
Reverdy and I had gone to marshes a few miles away for wild geese and ducks; and we had come back loaded with game for ourselves and friends. There were many parties and what were called "shucking bees," where the company set to to assist the host in ridding the corn of its sheath; and quilting bees; and apple parings. These were occasions of festival, the local rituals of Dionysius.
And then, of a sudden, there was a sound the dying rumor of a ripple, somewhere in the outside darkness, as though an object had been let into the water with extreme care. "You heard?" I nodded. The ticking of the watch in my vest pocket came to my ears, shucking off the leisurely seconds, while McCord's fingernails gnawed at the palms of his hands. The man was really sick.
When I was about nineteen, I went away from home one winter to teach school a little country school about fifteen miles from home. But in the old States fifteen miles from home makes you a dead rank stranger. The trustee of the township was shucking corn when I went to apply for the school. I simply whipped out my peg and helped him shuck out a shock or two while we talked over school matters.
If Rennie did order him up to the big house for firing, Drew was not going to meet him stinking of horse and sweat. In the stream back of the water corral there was a bathing place, and chilly as it was, Drew intended to take advantage of it. "A mite cold, ain’t it?" Anse demanded from the bank as Drew splashed vigorously to offset the chill. But the Texan was shucking boots and clothing in turn.
Some were shucking corn and tossing the bright golden ears into wagons that were placed between the rows for that purpose, while others were hauling the grain to their barns to store it away for the winter's use.
"He may, for all of me," was Abner's smiling rejoinder; "I'm well content to be among the laggards, so long as you are sitting near me. Besides, the prize is not one I should dare claim." "Is there a prize?" asked Abby. "I did not know that; this is the first shucking party I ever attended. What is the prize to be?"
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