You know I followed a plow, and that is real toil.

The nestlings throve in the sunshine, in the heart of a fertile country, while the father sang as he guided his plow, and the mother at home cleverly made the soup and kept the children in order.

"Or drag a plow.

The slaves often acquired great skill in these operations, running plows within two inches of the stalks, and striking down weeds within half an inch with their hoes, rarely touching a leaf of the cotton.

The ground in the meadow was soft and black, and he drove the plow up and down, making long furrows as he went.

And now you turn back and leave the plow in the furrow!"

We see him stop the plow to listen to what the wind is saying, or turn aside lest he disturb the birds at their singing and nest making.

'He might be made useful on a farm,' I said; 'if his legs were as big as the rest of him, he could draw a plow as well as an ox.'

If Bob West sells a plow we've got to mention the name of the farmer who bought it; if there's a wedding, we'll make a double-header of it; if a baby is born, we willwill" "Print its picture in the paper.

In the first place, it enabled the people in New York, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Illinois, and all over the West, to buy plows and hoes and axes and clothing and food and medicine for a much lower price than they had formerly paid for such things.

But the arch destroyers are the shepherds, with their flocks of hoofed locusts, sweeping over the ground like a fire, and trampling down every rod that escapes the plow as completely as if the whole plain were a cottage garden-plot without a fence.

But this new model proved upon the whole a failure and a little later he "Spent the greater part of the day in making a new plow of my own Invention."

On the following week we increased the number of planters, but soon reduced them, as we found we should overtake the plows earlier than we desired.

Then, during the subsoiling which the land, growing arid and worthless through mediaeval blight, underwent in 1832 and after, when the Reform Bill and its successors, like deeply penetrating plows, threw to the surface much that was unsightly, yet full of potentialities for good, the spot was the same.

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

While the cotton was being picked the blacksmith was repairing the plows, the harness-maker was fitting up the harnesses for the mules, and every thing was progressing satisfactorily.

I can feel it in frosty weather yet; but it never amounted to much except to the dealers in riding plows and the like.

I have known farmers who, in travelling, saw only plows and butter-tubs and corn-cribs, and preachers who, looking across such autumn fields as these would carry away only a musty text or two.

Next day he set the new plow to work "and found She answerd very well.

Three days after the establishment of the post we were able to start a half-dozen plows, and within two weeks we had our original force in the field.

He made wagons, plows, plowstocks, buzzard wingsthey call them turning plows now.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

And de onliest way to bury dem wuz to cut a deep furrow wid a plow, lay de soldiers head to head, an' plow de dirt back on dem." "About a year after de war started de Mahster got one ob dese A.W.O.L.'s frum de Army

Where he had twenty breaking-teams following one another, if one broke his plow, or ran on a boulder and had to file it, the whole gang had to stop for him, or run around him and make a balk in the work.

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.