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And he looked fondly at his freckled nephew as he spoke. "A dibble and a corn-dropper will be more in his way than the rifle, for some weeks to come," said Mr. Howell. "What's a dibble?" asked both of the youngsters at once. The elder man smiled and looked at Younkins as he said, "A dibble, my lambs, is an instrument for the planting of corn.
"'He that by the plough would thrive, Must either hold the plough or drive," commented Oscar, filling his corn-dropper and eyeing his father's rather awkward handling of the ox-goad. Uncle Aleck had usually driven the cattle, but his hand was now required in the more difficult business of holding the plough.
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.
With it in one hand you punch a hole in the sod that has been turned over, and then, with the other hand, you drop in three or four grains of corn from the corn-dropper, cover it with your heel, and there you are, planted." "Why, I supposed we were going to plant corn with a hoe; and we've got the hoes, too!" cried Oscar.
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