`` New brooms sweep clean . '' But she gave him cream with his porridge that morning . Generally , all Miss Salome 's hired hands got from Clemantiny was skim milk . Miss Salome 's regular hired man lived in a little house down in the hollow . He soon turned up , and the other two men she had hired for harvest also arrived . Martin , the man , looked Chester over quizzically . `` What do you think you can do , sonny ? '' `` Anything , '' said Chester sturdily . `` I 'm used to work . '' `` He 's right , '' whispered Clemantiny aside . `` He 's smart as a steel trap . But just you keep an eye on him all the same , Martin . '' Chester soon proved his mettle in the harvest field . In the brisk three weeks that followed , even Clemantiny had to admit that he earned every cent of his wages . His active feet were untiring and his wiry arms could pitch and stock with the best . When the day 's work was ended , he brought in wood and water for Clemantiny , helped milk the cows , gathered the eggs , and made on his own responsibility a round of barns and outhouses to make sure that everything was snug and tight for the night . `` Freckles-and-Bones has been well trained somewhere , '' said Clemantiny again . It was hardly fair to put the bones in now , for Chester was growing plump and hearty . He had never been so happy in his life . Upton drudgery and that dreadful week in Montrose seemed like a bad dream .
Here , in the golden meadows XXXXX Mount Hope Farm , he worked with a right good will .
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