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But other legends, not so famous nor so romantic, carry on the story of the great Cretan King to a miserable close. Dædalus, his famous artificer, was also an Athenian, and the most cunning of all men. To him was ascribed the invention of the plumb-line and the auger, the wedge and the level; and it was he who first set masts in ships and bent sails upon them.
There are no mirrors, bedsteads, bureaus, or chairs to be transported. With an auger and a hatchet, these articles are soon constructed in their new home. The wife, with the youngest child, rides. The husband, with his rifle upon his shoulder, and followed by the rest of the children, trudges along on foot.
Still the whistles screamed; all through the night they screamed, as drift after drift yielded, as the eight-foot bite of the first giant auger gnawed and tore at the packed contents of the last shed atop Crestline; then roared and sang, while the hills sent back their outbursts with echoes that rolled, one into another, until at last the whole world was one terrific out-pouring of explosive sounds and shrill, shrieking blasts, as though the mountains were bellowing their anger, their remonstrance at defeat.
Why shoult I pay you for doing what I haf alretty paid to haf done?" Orde chuckled. "Heinzman," said he, "I told you I'd make you scratch gravel. Now it's time to talk business. You thought you were boring with a mighty auger, but it's time to revise. We aren't forced to bother with your logs, and you're lucky to get out so easy.
"Yes, I'm getting old, John, but you needn't keep telling me of it." "Sir, didn't I tell you not to call me John?" "Yes, but I thought you'd forgotten it." Taylor and the Englishman were side by side, the log between them. Auger holes had been bored in the shaft and strong oak pins had been driven in to serve for handles. "Remember to keep a tight grip on your handle," said Jim.
And don't expect him to return your smile, for where would your liberality be in that case? It is easy to pity Auger, who needs no pity. It is difficult to pity Gregoire, and yet he is so pitiable. Do not forget; Auger is touched with grace; but Gregoire will be damned if you do not hold out your hand to him. God Himself, who has withheld grace from the damned, must feel pity for them.
Let us go to him at once, for I must not stay long. I will tell ye both what hath occurred." "Come," quoth Sally, leading the way to the staircase, which was at the back of the house, and approached from a side entrance. "We have put him in the front chamber, which contains the 'Auger Hole. Thee remembers it, Peggy? For further safety we have drawn the bedstead in front of the door.
Everybody was amazed to see that it looked exactly like the end of a large auger; and two or three timid men were so scared at the idea of such a thing actually growing out of the earth that they suddenly got over the fence and left.
Then, in the third place, came some tools an auger, a gimlet, a handsaw, an assortment of nails and brads, a spade, a shovel, a pickaxe, a hatchet, an adze, &c., &c.
They are persuaded that the country is well defended, that our soldiers are brave, and that wounds and mutilations, though they may be serious things, are not unbearable. Yet pain has come to Auger as to the rest. But there is a way of taking it. He suffers in an enlightened, intelligent, almost methodical fashion. He does not confuse issues, and complain indiscriminately.
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