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It is certain however that now they gather in fruit from the earth with less labour than any other men and also with less than the other Egyptians; for they have no labour in breaking up furrows with a plough nor in hoeing nor in any other of those labours which other men have about a crop; but when the river has come up of itself and watered their fields and after watering has left them again, then each man sows his own field and turns into it swine, and when he has trodden the seed into the ground by means of the swine, after that he waits for the harvest, and when he has threshed the corn by means of the swine, then he gathers it in.
We have seen boys work in the broiling sun day after day hoeing potatoes, pulling weeds, gathering crops, and doing other hard jobs for small pay, carefully saving every penny to buy a toy steam engine. Parents usually look upon these evidences of mechanical ability with pleasure.
Then he turned to his wife and daughter. "Is Kate gone? Without proper clothing and on borrowed money," he demanded. "I don't know," said Mrs. Bates. "I was hoeing potatoes all forenoon." "Listen to this," he thundered. Then he slowly read the note aloud. But someway the spoken words did not have the same effect as when he read them mentally in the first shock of anger.
"It was fun. But it won't be any fun taking 'em home, for Mr. Hardee will be mad." "Why?" asked Harry, as he began eating a second muffin. "Well, he'll say I was catching fish instead of hoeing corn. But I caught all these in the noon hour, when I'm supposed to have a little time off. But he wouldn't believe that, so there's no use taking the fish home. You can have 'em.
More experiments with such premiums on weeding and deep hoeing were made by task-work per acre, and all succeeded in like manner, their premiums being all punctually paid them in proportion to their performance.
When my mind reverts to that early period of my life I become my own photographer and get various pictures of myself, either as picking, hoeing, or planting cotton, of pulling fodder or splitting rails, for these were the things I did from childhood to manhood.
A polished mahogany desk with nothing on it does not look very laborious to a laboring man. In order to have democracy in business successful, what an employer has to do is to find a substitute for hoeing in the next row. His workman wants to keep his eye on him, watch him hoeing faster than he is and see the perspiration on his brow.
Each day when I came home from school, I to my garden went; In hoeing and in pulling weeds, My leisure time I spent. My mother said to me, "My child, You've worked so very well I'll buy of you, if you desire, Whate'er you have to sell." I never tasted anything So tender and so sweet; I thanked the Lord most heartily For all I had to eat.
Close to the edge of one of the fields along which they were driving, some laborers were at work, hoeing potatoes. There were some splendid grain-fields adjoining, and at a little distance stood a handsome farm-house with thrifty-looking outbuildings. Leslie's spirit of mischief was now up, and nothing but exercise could calm it.
He thought no more of this untoward event, and went on hoeing until sunset, when, with the other labourers, he shouldered his hoe and prepared to go home. Never had the distance seemed so great; but at last he found himself by his wife’s bedside.
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