So that afternoon beheld Sam arranged at full length on a pile of top-tow in the barn-chamber, Hatchelling by proxy by putting Harry and myself to the service.
"Oldtown Fireside Stories The Ghost In The Mill; The Sullivan Looking-Glass; The Minister's Housekeeper; The Widow's Bandbox; Captain Kidd's Money; "Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher"; The Ghost In The Cap'n Brownhouse"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nevertheless, he found a purchaser, who took his subdued and sore servant home to his farm and set him to breaking and Hatchelling flax.
"Stage-coach and Tavern Days"
Alice Morse Earle