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When the oxen arrive at the top of the field, and the first furrow is completed, they stop, well knowing their duty, while the ploughman moves the iron rist, and the spindle which keeps it in position, to the other side, and moves the road-bat so as to push the coulter aside. These operations are done in a minute, and correspond in some degree to turning the rudder of a ship.
Then Blossom came near being caught napping off second, but was given "safe" on a close decision. Suddenly Coulter delivered, and the batter obeyed Old Put and did not offer, although it was right over the heart of the plate. "One strike!" was called. Now came the time for the attempted double steal that Frank had suggested. Putnam decided to try it on, and he signaled for it.
It is generally admitted that a college offers two main things, book learning and atmosphere. Of these the latter is larger and more vital, if it be good. If the college lose ground in either essential, the loss is usually attributable to a leading set of students. Coulter was losing ground, and the growth of a spirit of wildness in its halls was no small worry to the president.
Climbing at last the hill on which the farmhouse stood, be caught sight of Peter Blatherwick in a neighbouring field of barley stubble, with the reins of a pair of powerful Clydesdales in his hands, wrestling with the earth as it strove to wrench from his hold the stilts of the plough whose share and coulter he was guiding through it. Peter's delight was in the open air, and hard work in it.
In October the young Preacher and she must say good-bye for a long, long time, with little chance of any break till his course was completed, and he emerged a graduate of Coulter. That was a gloomy thought. But others of equal dread had come of late. Hartigan was paying repeated pastoral calls at Hoomers' and last week Jim and Lou-Jane had ridden to Fort Ryan together.
"All right!" cried Pepper. "A sail will suit me down to the ground." Jack and Andy were also pleased to go, and the quartet of boys were soon down at the boathouse, where the Skimmer was tied up. They were just getting aboard of the iceboat when they saw another craft heave in sight. "Who is that on board?" asked Andy. "It is Reff Ritter," answered Pepper, "and Gus Coulter is with him."
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
"Colonel," said the adjutant-general, "I don't know that I ought to say anything, but there is something wrong in all this. Do you happen to know that Captain Coulter is from the South?" "No; was he, indeed?" "I heard that last summer the division which the general then commanded was in the vicinity of Coulter's home camped there for weeks, and "
Please don't say it's a fence, or a a pig-sty." Mr. Coulter chuckled as he went on laying his foot-rule along the ground. "I hope it won't turn into a pig-sty," Mr. Dallas replied, with a smile. "It won't unless little pigs get into it." "Are you going to keep little pigs?" Dimple asked. "I didn't say so." "Oh, papa, you are so mystiferious. I wish you would tell us all about it.
Ritter was too proud and insisted that Reff be returned to Putnam Hall. So he is back." "Well, that certainly is hard luck," returned Fred. "I wonder if Coulter and Paxton will stick to him, now he is poor? My notion of it was, Coulter stuck to him mainly for what he could get out of it, he not having much spending money of his own."
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