What does the word "cuffing" mean in the story "An Uncomfortable Bed" By Guy de Maupassant?

What effect does mr. bullers point of view in paragraph 6

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

April does not let things interrupt her goals, she just continues on until she gets what she wants. complete, run on or comma splice