1 I know it's awful hard work for break sod.
2 If you'll believe it, they went to work the next day.
3 Grandmother had said, 'Heavy field work'll spoil that girl.'
4 Fuchs, who was the only cabinetmaker in the neighbourhood was set to work on a coffin.
5 Under one of the windows there was a place for them to wash when they came in from work.
6 Ambrosch and Antonia were both old enough to work in the fields, and they were willing to work.
7 In June, Ambrosch went to work at Mr. Bushy's for a week, and took Marek with him at full wages.
8 Ambrosch come along by the cornfield yesterday where I was at work and showed me three prairie dogs he'd shot.
9 Yet they were the sort of men who never get on, somehow, or do anything but work hard for a dollar or two a day.
10 From the windmill I watched Jelinek come out of the barn with the blacks, and work his way up the hillside toward the cornfield.
11 They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
12 He and grandmother were getting old for the heavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be going to school.
13 One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
14 The lumber was hard to work because it was full of frost, and the boards gave off a sweet smell of pine woods, as the heap of yellow shavings grew higher and higher.
15 I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the 'hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.'
16 Ambrosch was a far-seeing fellow; he soon realized that his oxen were too heavy for any work except breaking sod, and he succeeded in selling them to a newly arrived German.
17 Fuchs had been a cowboy, a stage-driver, a bartender, a miner; had wandered all over that great Western country and done hard work everywhere, though, as grandmother said, he had nothing to show for it.
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