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"Look here," said Tom, beginning to lag, "I don't want to kick, but I'd just like to know why I am fool enough to walk all day like a mule on a tread-mill?" "You said you'd walk with me." "Said I would! Haven't I?" "Yes," the giant drawled, "in a manner." "If I haven't walked I don't know what you call walking. You have made a machine of me, a corn-planter.
The boys very soon understood fully what a dibble was, and what a corn-dropper was, strange though those implements were to them at first. Before the end of planting-time, they fervently wished they had never seen either of these instruments of the corn-planter.
I then borrowed a harness and began a general raid on the farmers, and succeeded fairly well. The only unpleasantness I experienced in the sale of implements was that of a check-row corn-planter, which was new to the farmers in that section as well as to myself.
Winter held on tenaciously and mercilessly, but it has let go. The great sun is high on his northern journey, and the vegetation, and the bird-singing, and the loud frog- chorus, the tree budding and blowing, are all upon us; and the glorious grass super-best of earth's garniture with its ever-satisfying green. The king-birds have come, and the corn-planter, the scolding bob-o-link.
A man who in his time had seen many an open door, but who had found them all closed when he attempted to enter! If any one ever needed the benefits of my fraternity, he was that man. "What Society did you think I belonged to?" he asked. "Well," I said, "when I was in town a man who wanted to sell me a corn-planter asked me if I was a Mason " "Did he ask you that, too?" interrupted my companion.
Before that, Isom he went off to St. Louis to business college a year or two and got all of his learnin' and smart ways. I might 'a' went, too, just as well as not. Always wisht I had." "Very true, very true," nodded Judge Little, as if to say: "You're on the trail of his iniquities now, Sol." Sol's mouth gaped like an old-fashioned corn-planter as he looked from the judge to Mrs.
The farmer, with his mowing-machine, his horse-rake, his automobile, his tractor engine and gang ploughs or his sulky ploughs, his hay-loader, his corn-planter, and so on, does the work of many men. Machinery takes the place of men. Gasolene and kerosene oil give man a great advantage. Dynamite, too, what a giant that is in his service! The higher cost of living does not offset this advantage.
The worthy deacon and my deeply religious father alternately led the family devotions, and peace and comfort prevailed. The mowing machine, horse-hoe, corn-planter and power-rake dispensed with the drudgery of the scythe and back-breaking hand tools. A protective tariff had set the mill wheels rolling in the neighboring cities, thus furnishing excellent markets for all the products of the farm.
I repeat it beware of a surprise!" At that time, three famous Seneca chiefs from western New York Corn-Planter, Half Town, and Big Tree were at the seat of government, and offered to visit their dusky brethren in the Ohio region, and try to persuade them to bury the hatchet.
So we set out in the saddle, my friend and I, stopping one night with crazy old John Abeel he who is still remembered as the father of the Seneca half-breed chieftain Corn-Planter and the next night with Honnikol Herkimer. This man, I recall, greatly impressed Mr. Cross. We were now in an exclusively German section of the Valley, where no Dutch and very little English was to be heard.
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