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And when Riggs and Peabody found themselves carting consignments to Baltimore in order to make shipment to Savannah and Charleston, they knew the die was cast. They packed up and moved to Baltimore. This was in the year Eighteen Hundred Fifteen. In order to do business you had better go where business is being done. Trade follows the lines of least resistance.
It does not do the work so neatly as the sickle, and is apt to pull up many stalks by the roots with the earth attaching to them, especially at the last, outside stroke. I was struck with the economy adopted by my host in loading, carting and stacking or ricking his grain. The operation was really performed like clock-work.
"Think he'll sell out?" asks Isak. "Well, he did speak of it. And he's got rid of the lad he had already. Ay, a curious man, a queer sort of man, that Aronsen, 'tis sure. Sends away his lad could be working on the place getting in winter fuel and carting hay with that horse of his, but keeps on his storeman chief clerk, he calls him.
There were others who paid to their masters annually a specified sum of money for their time, that they might enjoy the control of their own affairs as much as possible. For many years before the war my father did public carting in the town of Fayetteville as a free-man, his master receiving a certain amount of his earnings.
To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle.
Such of the freedmen as were not employed by government have obtained a living by fishing, oystering, huckstering, carting, washing, &c.
Gray, coming in dirty and tired in the evening, after a long day's work in the hayfield or carting manure, was never too tired, nor for the matter of that too dirty, to take the baby, and let it dab its fat hands on his face, or claw at his grizzled whiskers or slobber open-mouthed kisses on his cheeks.
"Guess what?" he said to Johnny, lounging in his hammock. "Too hot to guess," said Johnny, lazily. "Your shoe-store man's come," said Keogh, rolling the sweet morsel on his tongue, "with a stock of goods big enough to supply the continent as far down as Terra del Fuego. They're carting his cases over to the custom-house now. Six barges full they brought ashore and have paddled back for the rest.
That gun of the major's carries further than anything we have run against yet, and he just couldn't miss a Hun to save his life." The major was Richardson's observer. Another yarn that Richardson was accustomed to tell on his companion of the upper reaches ran as follows: "When they first put me at carting observation planes around I was pretty green.
He was already taught to make himself useful by drawing loads of wood and carting away the stones which were extracted from the bed of Creek Glycerine. The poultry-yard occupied an area of two hundred square yards, on the southeastern bank of the lake. It was surrounded by a palisade, and in it were constructed various shelters for the birds which were to populate it.
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