Don't you wish we'd lived in them times?
Jest think about the wood they had--cedars o' Lebanon an' fir-trees.
You know how he set folks to workin' in the mountains. I've al'ays
thought I'd like to ben up on them mountains an' heard the axes ringin'
an' listened to the talk. An' then there was pomegranates an' cherubim,
an' as for silver an' gold, they were as common as dirt. When I was a
little girl, I learnt them chapters, an' sometimes now, when I'm
settin' by the fire, I say over that verse about the 'man of Tyre,
skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone,
and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson.'
My! ain't it rich?"
She drew a long breath of surfeited enjoyment. The schoolmaster's eyes
burned under his heavy brows.
"Then things smelt so good in them days," continued Miss Susan. "They
had myrrh an' frankincense, an' I dunno what all. I never make my
mincemeat 'thout snuffin' at the spice-box to freshen up my mind. No
matter where I start, some way or another I al'ays git back to Solomon.
Well, if Cap'n Ben wants to see foreign countries, I guess he'd be
glad to set a spell in the temple. Le's have on another stick--that big
one thereby you.
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