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Updated: May 3, 2025
Look at the stars!" "They're wonderful!" "Carrying something under that cape? Give it to me, chum." "It's only a bit of a basket, Jimps; never mind, you might spill it." "You can't carry a bit of a basket when I'm around! Spill nothing! Hand it over." "Terribly dictatorial to-night, aren't you?" "Possibly. I've been bossing a lot of new hands to-day, who didn't know a pick from a gang-plough."
When his forefinger got sore, he got a forked stick and used that instead; then he got a larger one and used both hands; then a still larger one, and used oxen as the motive power; and then he fitted handles to it, and other parts till he finally produced a plough. But the principle has not been changed, and the gang-plough is but a multifold forefinger.
Some of the ranches have three or four thousand acres in wheat, and it may interest you to know how such large farms are managed. The ploughing is done by a gang-plough, as it is called, which has four steel ploughshares that turn up the ground ten inches deep.
One needs costly labour, teams no end of them breakers, and big gang-plough. The farmer who has nerve enough drills his last dollar into the soil in spring, but if he means to succeed it costs him more than that. He must give the sweat of his tensest effort, the uttermost toil of his body all, in fact, that has been given him.
I suppose that the size of my world is the measure of myself, and that in my schoolmastering I am simply trying to enlarge the world of my pupils. I saw a gang-plough the other day that is drawn by a motor, and that set me to thinking of ploughs in general and their evolution; and, by tracing the plough backward, I saw that the original one must have been the forefinger of some cave-dweller.
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