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Updated: May 25, 2025
"You go 'long down to the house and ask my mother for a new clevis; and talk about ploughs when you know how to hold 'em," said Mr. Plumfield. "It don't look so difficult a matter," said Mr. Rossitur, "but I am a novice myself. What is the principal thing to be attended to in ploughing, Mr. Plumfield?"
He stopped his horse and remained for some time motionless, looking at the lightning and listening to the thunder. The fatalist was heard to cast into the night the mysterious words, 'We are agreed. Napoleon was mistaken; they no longer agreed." The arena of Waterloo is an undulating plain. Strategically it has the shape of an immense harrow. The clevis is on the height called Mont St.
A man had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky, and was taking them to a farm in the South. They were chained six and six together; a small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each, and this was fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together like so many fish upon a trot-line.
"A white man here?" exclaimed the superior-looking person; "what can they mean?" "I'm ironed so heavy, Jimmy," continued Samson, "dat I can't set up much. My han's is tied togedder wid cord, my feet's in an iron clevis, and a ball's chained to de clevis." "Give me your hands," exclaimed Jimmy; "I'll settle them cords, by smoke!"
"Why I've broke this here clevis I ha'n't touched anything nor nothing, and it broke right in teu!" "What do you s'pose'll be done now?" said Mr. Plumfield gravely going up to examine the fracture. "Well 'twa'n't none of my doings," said the young man. "I ha'n't touched anything nor nothing and the mean thing broke right in teu. 'Tain't so handy as the old kind o' plough, by a long jump."
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