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Updated: June 29, 2025
Theres no moon yet, cried the wood-chopper; but its a clear night. Come, whos for home? Hark! what a rumpus theyre kicking up in the jail heres go and see what its about. We shall be lost, said Edwards, if we dont drop this man. At that instant Elizabeth moved close to him, and said rapidly, in a low voice: Lay him in the cart, and start the oxen; no one will look there.
I remember that one of our men, who was champion wood-chopper of Australia before the war, drove his bayonet through a German and six inches into a hardwood beam, and as he could not withdraw it had to unship it, leaving the German stuck up there as a souvenir of his visit.
It resolved to do a wicked thing; which will not surprise you when you remember the beast's purple color. "Step into my parlor and rest yourself," said the Dragon, politely. Wicked people are most polite when they mean mischief. "Thank you, I'll stop for a few minutes," replied the wood-chopper; "but I can not stay long, as I am expected at court."
Hiram did not give the wood-chopper time to change his mind, but the oath was administered without unnecessary delay. So soon as this preliminary was completed, the three worthies left the house, and proceeded by the nearest road toward the hut.
No one had refused to sign the petition he carried, and over twenty names had been scrawled upon the paper. As he moved along his eyes rested upon a little cottage away to the right, nestling near a grove of large maple trees. Old Henry Burchill, the wood-chopper, lived there. Farrington's brows knitted as he thought of him. Would he sign the paper?
"By the way, Amy," said Leonard, "the wood-chopper that you visited with me is doing so well that we shall give him work on the farm this summer. There was a little wheat in all that chaff of a man, and it's beginning to grow. But the wife is a case. He says he would like to work where he can see you occasionally."
Rene de Ronville was among the first to take the oath, and it promptly followed that Hamilton ordered him pressed into service as a wood-chopper and log-hauler during the erection of a new blockhouse, large barracks and the making of some extensive repairs of the stockade. Nothing could have been more humiliating to the proud young Frenchman.
This raised a laugh at the expense of Harry Wilson, who had broken down on that line, though he did not make it as bad as Jimmy represented it. "G-g-go on with your story!" stammered the chairman, and Jackson proceeded. There lived in a country a long way off it don't matter where a poor wood-chopper whose name was let's see well, we will call him Bertram.
The days of the early pioneers, of the men who did the hardest and roughest work, were over; farms were being laid out and towns were growing up among the felled forests from which the game and the Indians had alike been driven. There was still plenty of room for the rude cabin and stump-dotted clearing of the ordinary frontier settler, the wood-chopper and game hunter.
The missus ups with the wood-chopper and stands before the cradle, while you yell and dance round with the knives. That ought to be made 'the moment' of the whole piece. The great thing is to make enough noise. If you can yell louder than the talking-machine outfit on the next pitch we ought to turn money away.
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