[Glengarry Schooldays by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookGlengarry Schooldays CHAPTER IX 18/37
"You may boss the job, though.
I'll bring the potatoes to the back door." And this he did, thinking it no trouble to hitch up the team to draw the wagon into the back yard so that his mother might have a part in the cutting of the seed potatoes, as she had had every year of her life on the farm. Very carefully, and in spite of her protests that she could walk quite well, Thomas carried his mother out to her chair in the shade of the house, arranging with tender solicitude the pillows at her back and the rug at her feet.
Then they set to work at the potatoes. "Mind you have two eyes in every seed, Hughie," said Jessac, severely. "Huh! I know.
I've cut them often enough," replied Hughie, scornfully. "Well, look at that one, now," said Jessac, picking up a seed that Hughie had let fall; "that's only got one eye." "There's two," said Hughie, triumphantly. "That's not an eye," said Jessac, pointing to a mark on the potato; "that's where the top grew out of, isn't it, mother ?" "It is, isn't it ?" appealed Hughie. Mrs.Finch took the seed and looked at it. "Well, there's one very good eye, and that will do." "But isn't that the mark of the top, mother ?" insisted Jessac.
But the mother only shook her head at her. "That's right, Jessac," said Thomas, driving off with his team; "you look after Hughie, and mother will look after you both till I get back, and there'll be a grand crop this year." It was a happy hour for them all.
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