[A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s by Charles Asbury Stephens]@TWC D-Link bookA Busy Year at the Old Squire’s CHAPTER II 6/19
But Addison and I thought it over, and asked the old Squire's opinion.
He said that we might take the new kit, and have all we could make. On that, we notified them all to come and begin drawing home their cakes the following Monday morning, for the ice was growing thicker all the while; and the thicker it got, the harder our work would be. They wanted about four thousand cakes; and as we would need help, we took in Thomas Edwards and Willis Murch as partners.
Both were good workers, and we anticipated having a rather fine time at the lake. In the woods on the west shore, nearly opposite where the ice was to be cut, there was an old "shook" camp, where we kept our food and slept at night, in order to avoid the long walk home to meals. On Sunday it snowed, and cleared off cold and windy again.
It was eight degrees below zero on Monday morning, when we took our outfit and went to work.
Everything was frozen hard as a rock.
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