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January 8January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 357 days remaining (358 in leap years).
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grew about the spring.html">spring, near the log shanty, and taking advantage
single Pigeon close to him, took a long aim and fired. A sharp
Thorburn rushed to seize the prize just as a tall young man
hayer and thought I'd make sure of wan with the rifle.html">rifle."
A careful examination showed that a rifle-ball as well as a
the same bird. Both enjoyed the joke, though it had its serious
home.html">home.
Corney, a superb specimen of a six.html">six-foot Irish-Canadian in early
of luxuries and the roughness of their lives were sources of
of Canada, had lost nothing of the spirit that makes the Irish
at Petersay, twenty-five miles to the southward. He had taken up
his grown sisters, Margat, staid and reliable, and Loo, bright
visiting them. He had just recovered from a severe illness and
the vigor of his hosts. Their home was of unhewn logs, unfloored,
weeds. The primitive woods around were broken in two places: one
where the sparkling lake rolled on a pebbly shore and gave a
water.
Their daily round had little change. Corney was up at daybreak to
prepared breakfast.html">breakfast. At six the meal was over and Corney went to
rampike falling on the spring, a clear notification to draw fresh
Corney, seeing the signal, would return from summer fallow or
honest toil. Thor might be away all day, but at night, when they
ridge and eat a supper like the dinner and breakfast, for meals
tea, with occasionally eggs supplied by a dozen hens around the
Thor was not a hunter and Corney had little time for anything.
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