[At Love’s Cost by Charles Garvice]@TWC D-Link bookAt Love’s Cost CHAPTER XIII 9/18
But they are all there.
Try again." He tried--and made it fifty-six. "Didn't I tell you that I was an idiot!" he said, in despair. "Oh, you can't expect to learn the first time," she said, consolingly. "It was weeks before I could do it; and I almost cried the first few times I tried: they would move just as I was finishing." "Oh, well, then I can hope to get it in time," he said.
"Did it ever strike you that though we think ourselves jolly clever, that there are heaps of things which a workingman--the men we look down upon--can do which we couldn't accomplish if it were to save our lives.
For instance, I couldn't make a horseshoe if my existence depended upon it, and yet it looks as easy as--" -- "Counting sheep," she finished, with a twinkle in her grey-blue eyes. "Just so," he said, with a laugh.
"Shall I have another try ?" "Oh, no; you'd be here all day; and we've got to see if the others are all right; but first I think we'd better go and look at the weir; Jason says that a stone has got washed down, and that means that when the autumn rains come the meadows would be flooded." "All right: I'm ready," he said, with bright alacrity.
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