[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER IX 12/13
Name the word in the index, he'll turn to the page, and give you day, date, and fact, for it.
There is no mistake in him. "That cussed provokin' visit of yours to Scotland will shove them things into the next book, I'm afeered.
But it don't signify nothin'; you can't cram all into one, and we hante only broke the crust yet, and p'rhaps it's as well to look afore you leap too, or you might make as big a fool of yourself, as some of the Britishers have a-writin' about us and the provinces.
Oh yes, it's a great advantage havin' minister with you. He'll fell the big stiff trees for you; and I'm the boy for the saplin's, I've got the eye and the stroke for them.
They spring so confoundedly under the axe, does second growth and underwood, it's dangerous work, but I've got the sleight o' hand for that, and we'll make a clean field of it. "Then come and survey; take your compass and chain to the ground and measure, and lay that off--branch and bark the spars for snakin' off the ground; cord up the fire-wood, tie up the hoop poles, and then burn off the trash and rubbish.
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