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anyhow, you all seem to do as you like with me," he added jestingly. "And
you've been working with the lumbermen, have you?"
"Yes."
"Hardly the sort of thing for you, was it?" Then, as if anxious not to
seem curious about my work with Engineer Lassen, he broke off abruptly and
said: "When are you going to start painting the house?"
"I thought of beginning this afternoon. It'll need scraping a bit here and
there."
"Good. And if you find the woodwork loose anywhere, you can put in a nail
or so at the same time. Have you had a look at the fields?"
"Yes."
"Everything's looking very nice. You men did good work last spring. Do no
harm now if we had a little rain for the upper lands."
"Grindhusen and I passed lots of places on the way up that needed rain
more than here. It's clay bottom here, and far up in the hills."
"That's true. How did you know that, by the way?"
"I looked about when I was here in the spring," I answered, "and I did a
little digging here and there.
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