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For different grades of land, of course, different modes of working are advisable, the ordinary plough of a multifurrow pattern, with stump-jumping springs or weights, being used for land which is not too heavy or clayey; a disc plough or harrow being applicable to light, well-worked ground; and the mechanical spade or fork-digger reciprocating in its motion very much like the rock-drill having its special sphere of usefulness in wet and heavy land.

They were both experienced in such affairs, and powerful with the spade; and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid. At the same moment Macfarlane, having hurt his hand upon a stone, flung it carelessly above his head.

"It is a treasure, it is!" cried Marjorie, and eagerly she wielded her spade to get the box free. At last she succeeded, and picking it up from the dirt, carried it to the wheelbarrow. Two or three other children also brought treasures they had found, and this encouraged the others so that they dug deeper.

We call a spade a spade on 'The Mercury. Just read that speech, and then sit down and write about Caprice. You can mention the running of Bailiff in the Hurdles at the same time. If the stewards won't do their duty, 'The Mercury' will point it out to them." In this manner was Gerard introduced to the policy of Denis Quirk and his paper.

He had scarcely drawn himself quite within the shadow of the recess, when Swankie succeeded in kindling a torch, which filled the cavern with a lurid light, and revealed its various forms, rendering it, if possible, more mysterious and unearthly than ever. "Here, Spink," cried Swankie, who was gradually getting into better humour, "haud the light, and gie me the spade."

If American critics would devote their attention for ten years to this spade work, they might not win so much honor, but we should find the atmosphere clearer at the end of that period for the true exercise of literary criticism. Nevertheless I contend that there is much fine work being accomplished at present, which is buried in the ruck of the interminable commonplace.

He soon found out that the hoe and the spade were not the tools he was meant to work with, but he had some general ideas about farming which he expressed very happily: "The farmer's office is precise and important, but you must not try to paint him in rose-color; you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister he is.

I find the springs of the profoundest sorrow and pity in this hardened indifference of the grave-diggers, in their careless discussion as to whether Ophelia's death was by suicide or no, in their singing and jesting at their dreary work. "A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding-sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet!"

And yet I might have known that you'd find me if I was on top of the earth." "You made a game fight for it, old boy," said Frank admiringly. "Gee, what a clip you gave those fellows with that spade," chuckled Billy. "They went down like cattle hit with an axe."

He dragged them up one by one, and underneath he found another row, laid crosswise; and another row, and another, till he had uncovered seven rows, making fifty bars in all. Beneath the lowest row his spade slipped on something round and smooth; he uncovered the earth, and presently drew out a brown and sodden skull, which thus lay beneath the treasure.