He lifted an' slung those two Germans, one after another, quick as that!like you'd toss a couple of wheat sheafs with your pitchfork, an' he sent them rollin', with blood squirtin' all over.

He is one of those beings who may be aptly termed "machines," a patient, plodding, ox-like creature who takes to the most irksome labor as a flail takes to the sheafs on the threshing-floor.

They seemed to get the work done somehow, as little sheafs laid in rows bore witness; but the patience of Job must have been upon them!

For some minutes one saw nothing but a liquid water-spout scattering itself in sheafs on all sides.