The Making of a Country Home
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Some of the boulders at the bottom of it weigh a ton. They only needed splitting up to make the best building material in the world.
When I proposed to split them the mason said 152 ENTERTAINS ANGELS UNAWARES it wouldn't pay — they would have to be drilled and blasted, and if I bought the drills, sledges, tamps, and powder and fuse a man couldn't get away with much more than one of them, in a day, and it would cost more than it was worth. If I had been a man who depended on the experi- ence of ...the veterans, I would have given up the job, for I calculated that, with this old process of drilling and blasting, the stone would cost me about eighteen cents a cubic foot to get it out.
But you are not interested in these details." " Oh, it's just lovely," said Sprague. " Go on." " Well, do you know what I did ? I found a man who had been taking out trees over in the mountains. I learned something. He did not cut the trees down with an axe and leave a stump that would take four men and a yoke of oxen two days to get out.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Some of the boulders at the bottom of it weigh a ton. They only needed splitting up to make the best building material in the world.
When I proposed to split them the mason said 152 ENTERTAINS ANGELS UNAWARES it wouldn't pay — they would have to be drilled and blasted, and if I bought the drills, sledges, tamps, and powder and fuse a man couldn't get away with much more than one of them, in a day, and it would cost more than it was worth. If I had been a man who depended on the experi- ence of ...the veterans, I would have given up the job, for I calculated that, with this old process of drilling and blasting, the stone would cost me about eighteen cents a cubic foot to get it out.
But you are not interested in these details." " Oh, it's just lovely," said Sprague. " Go on." " Well, do you know what I did ? I found a man who had been taking out trees over in the mountains. I learned something. He did not cut the trees down with an axe and leave a stump that would take four men and a yoke of oxen two days to get out.
What to read after The Making of a Country Home?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles Edward Hooper to read onlineMoreLess
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