There are still only two Jewish colonies beyond Jordan, where the Hauranunder the Roman Empire a corn-land with a dozen citieshas been opened up by the railway and is waiting again for the plough.

"If once," Dr. Rohrbach prophesies, "the peasant population were sure of its life and property, it would joyfully expand, push out into the desert, and bring new land under the plough; in a few years the villages would spring up, not by dozens, but by hundreds.

Thence with what pleasure have we just discerned The distant plough slow moving, and beside His labouring team, that swerved not from the track, The sturdy swain diminished to a boy.

Till, wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruined, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thineno distant date; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Pattle, plough-staff.

Pleugh, plough.

I wish there had been some one here to plough a fire-guard when the fires of gossip began to run here three years ago.

"Plough a fire-guard, O Lord," she prayed, as she walked, "and let these deadly fires of gossip run their noses square into it and be smothered.

For fear of death can princes entertain Such bastard thoughts, that now from glorious arms Vouchsafe to draw like oxen in a plough?

There came a farmer's son a-wooing to her, A proper man: well-landed too he was, A man that for his wit need not to ask What time a year 'twere good to sow his oats, Nor yet his barley; no, nor when to reap, To plough his fallows, or to fell his trees, Well-experienc'd thus each kind of way; After a two months' labour at the most And yet 'twas well he held it out so long

"Or I repeat my own lines, written in my Clerk state: "Who first invented workand bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business, in the green fields, and the town To plough, loom, anvil, spadeand

Holding the plough may appear a simple task but believe me it is not so and calls for quite a lot of skill and stamina.

The trick is to keep the plough in the centre and avoid cutting the hoofs of the animals at the same time.

One needs to put the right amount of pressure on the handle as the plough should neither be too deep nor too shallow in the soil.

Also one has to constantly keep one's eye on the bullocks to direct them to turn around at the end of the field and to lift the plough when it reaches a bund.

Although I went ploughing with Guru for several days in a row, he never let me plough on my own because getting the right balance was still very difficult for me and if any of the bullocks got hurt due to my inexperience he would have to give the animal at least 15 days' rest which would cost him heavily in earnings.

I helped Guru plough about half a dozen fields and even now when the rainy season approaches I remember that experience with warmth and pleasure.

During the Yearly Meeting John Yeardley lodged at William Allen's, at Plough-court and Stoke Newington, and was introduced to several Friends with whom he had not before been acquainted.

But every plough-man and rude shepheard swain Doth still reply unto my greater paine?

The first horse came out with great deliberation, being an old animal well cooled with toil at the plough, and the major had merely to swing his arm, to turn him into the field.

The iron part of it is like a plough-coulter.

The Irwin Plains presented a beautiful aspect, being covered with rich grass and vegetation; the soil is generally good; but most of the grasses being of the annual species, would not afford good pasturage in the summer, and in consequence they are better suited for agriculture, while the open character of the country would render clearing for the plough a matter of little expense.

On the dun hills of the North hast thou heard of no plough-boy Pizarro?

Many of these oxen are tamed and broke in for labour, for which they are better adapted, by their strength, than any other creatures, as they bear very heavy burdens, and when yoked in the plough will do twice the work of others.

He that was fetched from the plough to be made dictator had not half his pride and insolence, nor Caligula's horse that was made consul.

" It was Randolph who got the idea, one day when he was sitting on the plow handle lighting his pipe.

What have I done?" Mr. Cowan had stopped his team, and lifting the lines from behind his back, he wound them deliberately around the handles of the plow before speaking.

" Mr. Cowan was untwisting the lines from the plow handles preparatory to making another round.

Shall I call men away from the useful plow and harrow, to talk loud on street corners about things which do not concern them.

If they ain't nothing worthwhile to do he always sets us to grubbing up roots; and if we ain't diggin' up roots, we got to get out old 'Maggie' mare and try to plow.

Plow in rocks like them!

And Bull, apparently understanding the sluggish nature of the old mare by sympathy of kind, use to work her to the single plow among the rocks of their clearing.

There was a field which had been recently upturned by the plow, perhaps the work of yesterday.

After this a narrow plow known as a "bull tongue," was used to turn the loose earth around the plant and cover up any grass not totally destroyed by the hoes.

If the surface was very rough the hoes followed, instead of preceding, the plow to unearth those plants that may have been partially covered.

Monday morning I was sent to the field to plow; and, though I was very stiff and my flesh seemed sore to the bone, my skin drawn and shriveled as if dead, I had, at least, to make the attempt to work.

"This looks to be a perfect place for our picnic," said Betty, as, on passing a farm, they saw the plow-horses unhitched and led under a tree to partake of their hay and oats.

Yes; for that upheaval, like the plow of some titanic husbandman, brought to the surface elements of good and use which had been lying fallow for unnumbered ages.

A cornfield, a plow, a woodpile, an oak tree, will cure no man unless he have it in himself to be cured.

It is not clear whether it will pay to use that farm land for a building scheme; and, within the domain of agriculture, which of course comprises an immense variety of really different industries, it is often a very moot point indeed whether a certain field should be left under grass, or brought under the plow.

It might be socially desirable to bring under the plow a field which the farmer finds it only slightly more profitable to lease under grass; but this would be highly improbable in the case of a field where the balance of argument to the farmer in favor of pasture is overwhelming.

The farmer must plow the soil and sow the seed months before he can reap the harvest which will reward him for his efforts.

He is one who would naturally be first in war, as he says, and now also is first in following the plow, and learning the ways of the white man.

They all tilled their own clearings, guiding the plow among the charred stumps left when the trees were chopped down and the land burned over, and they were all, as a matter of course, hunters.

They exhorted no less earnestly in the bare meeting-houses on Sunday, because their hands were roughened with guiding the plow and wielding the axe on week-days; for they did not believe that being called to preach the word of God absolved them from earning their living by the sweat of their brows.

He learned to milk the cows, to drive the plow, to ride the most fractious horses, and to break the fiery young colts; he knew precisely how to look after the horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, fowls, and everything at night and in the morning.

Some people think that this group of stars looks like a wagon and three horses; others say that it looks like a plow.

He says he imagines he hears the voice of Sherman now, saying: "Tell Wheeler to go on to South Carolina; we will mow it down with grape shot and plow it in with bombshell.

Mary was very active with the plow, she could handle it with the agility of a man.

This prowess gained her the title of "plow girl.