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We cut up some of the meat an' eat it raw, an' the cap'n sent some over to the other wreck, which had drifted past us to leeward, an' would have gone clean away from us if the cap'n hadn't had a line got out an' made us fast to it while we was a-workin' at the stores.
"Well," said the bullet-headed man, stooping to blow the froth from his ale, "it was arter I beat Jack Nolan of Brummagem. The Prince 'e come a-runnin' to me 'e did, as I sat in my corner a-workin' at a loose tusk.
When night came we could see his figure against the light, a-workin' and a-heavin' like a man possessed. No dinner would he have, but work, and work, and work. Now it's all quiet, and the furnace cold, and no smoke from above, but we can't get no answer from him, sir, so we are scared, and Miller has gone for the police, and I came away for you."
But the One who makes it knows He's a-workin' in the pattern, and the black dark bits only serve to show up the bright that's a-comin'. 'Ay, said Reuben, sinking into a chair; 'I mind plenty o' black days in my life; but I've had a many bright 'uns too ay, and one white 'un, and that were last Toosday! It be a fine patch o' white in my quilt, Jenny!
Well, Abe Shivers was a-workin' fer Tom you've heerd tell o' Abe an' the furriner wasn't more'n half gone afore Tom seed that Abe was up to some of his devilMINT. Abe kin hatch up more devilMINT in a minit than Satan hisself kin in a week; so Tom jes got Abe out'n the stable under a hoe-handle, an' tol' him to tell the whole thing straight ur he'd have to go to glory right thar. An' Abe tol'!
"Oh, a wreck?" she exclaimed. "Will we have time to go up and see it?" "I'd say it's a wreck," grinned the trainman. "An' you've got all the time you want. We're a-goin' to pull in on the sidin' an' let the wrecker an' bridge crew at it. But even with 'em a-workin' from both ends it'll be tomorrow sometime 'fore they c'n get them box cars drug out an' a temp'ry trussle throw'd acrost."
Yet as he stood there, with the sweat and grime of his labor drying on his forehead, his brooding eyes held a patriarchal dignity of uncomplaining courage. "All these hyar men air my neighbors, Mr. Brent," he said with a manner of instinctive courtesy. "They hain't a-workin' fer wages but jest ter kinderly convenience me I reckon we're both of us right smart beholden to 'em."
"The mill's a-workin', mother," he cried without stopping his flying fingers, "and I'm keepin' my eye upon her." She shook her head reproachfully at her husband. "Ay, the mill is workin' indeed, but it's not of the mill you're thinking." "Of what then?" he cried cheerily, still playing. "It is of that raising and of the dancing, I'll be bound you."
I shanna rest i' my grave if I donna see thee at th' last; an' how's they to let thee know as I'm a-dyin', if thee't gone a-workin' i' distant parts, an' Seth belike gone arter thee, and thy feyther not able to hold a pen for's hand shakin', besides not knowin' where thee art? Thee mun forgie thy feyther thee munna be so bitter again' him. He war a good feyther to thee afore he took to th' drink.
"You see," she said, "as I was a-settin' in the spring-house, this mornin', a-workin' my butter, I says to Dinah, 'I'm goin' to carry a pot of this down to Miss Scudder for the Doctor, I got so much good out of his Sunday's sermon. And Dinah she says to me, says she, 'Laws, Miss Jones.
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