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Updated: June 3, 2025
The ranch had ample supply of deer, bear, and elk meat, all solidly frozen this morning, that would surely keep well until used. Wade reflected that his tasks round the ranch would be feeding hounds and stock, chopping wood, and doing such chores as came along in winter-time. The pack of hounds, which he had thinned out to a smaller number, would be a care on his hands.
She made home a region of everlasting chores, rebukes, sayings wiser than tender, complaints and bitter criticisms of husband, children, merchants, neighbors, weather, prices, fabrics of everything on earth but of nothing in heaven. Strange to say, the children did not appreciate the advantages of their life.
I used to wonder, when they came in tired from the fields, their feet numb and their hands cracked and sore, how they could do all the chores so conscientiously: feed and water and bed the horses, milk the cows, and look after the pigs. When supper was over, it took them a long while to get the cold out of their bones.
"I suppose royal persons may lie abed and nurse their dispositions, while poor ones have to keep on washing dishes. But come on into the kitchen, Betty, we are in there to-night and I haven't yet finished my chores." She led the way with the candle down the shabby hall until both girls entered the lighted room.
This time the development was a very busy Friday forenoon; in which the silver rubbing was omitted, and the dinner preparations put off, the man who came for "chores" detained for heavy lifting, the large dining-table turned up on edge and rolled into the back parlor, the sideboard brought in and put in the place of a sofa, which was wheeled to an obtuse angle with the fire-place, nine square yards of gray drugget, with a black Etruscan border, sent up by Mr.
The fighting and dissipated students form themselves into clubs, called 'chores, among which a great deal of jealousy and ill feeling prevails. The fights are to avenge insults, to 'see who is the best fellow, or between representatives of different chores, who battle for the honor of their clubs. The champions fight with blunt swords ground sharp on the two edges.
It's so suggestive of sweetness and old-fashioned graces and 'silk attire. Now, my name just smacks of bread and butter, patchwork and chores." "Oh, I don't think so," said Diana. "Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen. But I'd like Kerrenhappuch if it happened to be your name. I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves.
Now it is wireless telegraphy that is the ultimate fulfilment of what he saw, the method that will reduce to practical realization his counsel to hitch one's wagon to a star, and "see his chores done by the gods themselves."
And after three days and nights of cramped existence and petty chores, one in the foremost trench and two a little way back, and then two days in support, we came back and here we are again waiting for our second Go. "The night time is perhaps a little more nervy than the day.
This was the worst of all the sleepless hours he had had, and in the morning he was up and out before Charlotte was ready for him. Jerry had breakfasted, when Raven came on him in the barn. He expected Tenney to go chopping, and he wanted the chores done, to get off early. Raven went in then and told Charlotte he would not have his own breakfast until Jerry had gone.
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