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They then became anxious to have me take the agency for their implements, but as I had in my mind the goods of other manufacturers which I believed had a better reputation, I hesitated about handling theirs. They became very much interested and urged me to let them send on consignment a car-load of horse-rakes and four threshing-machines.
He kinder wanted to go and see the plows and horse-rakes that mornin', but I capitulated with him by sayin' if he would go there first with me, anon we would go together to the horse-rake house.
The United States has preserved its ancient reputation in its agricultural machinery. We are especially strong in the class which we term "harvesters," the name including reapers, automatic binders, mowers, horse-rakes and hay-loaders. Our baling-presses also are in advance of competitors.
He greatly approved Thomas Grant's industry, and the zeal he manifested in all that concerned his master's interests; but he feared the man was so attached to the old ways of managing land, that he would be unwilling to avail himself of the improved implements of agriculture, or the new-fangled notions, as he called mowing-machines, horse-rakes, sowing-machines, etc., etc.
He has drinked 'em all up and 2 horse-rakes, a cultivator, and a thrashin'-machine. "Why! Why-ee!" says I agin. "And where are the children?" "The boys have inherited their father's evil habits, and drink as bad as he duz; and the oldest girl has gone to the bad." "Oh, dear! oh, dear me!" says I. And we both sot silent for a spell.
Bidding my girl an affectionate farewell I departed, and arrived at my uncle's with forty cents in cash and six dirty shirts. On my way there I fell in company with two gentlemen traveling together, one of whom was selling horse-rakes and the other threshing-machines. I explained to them that I was on my way to Three Rivers, where I expected to become an agent for my uncle.
There wuz lots of lace-work and ornaments about her, but she carried herself first rate. Wall, the ship as a hull is dretful interestin' to warriors and such, and mariners. As for me, I thought more of statutes, and pictures, and posies, and Josiah didn't take to it so much as he did to steers, and horse-rakes, and so forth.
The shed was erected for the accommodation of mowers, horse-rakes, and the necessary appurtenances for haying. At one end, as Lablache had said, was a living-room. It was called so by courtesy. It was little better than the rest of the building, except that there was a crazy door to it also a window; a rusty iron stove, small, and when a fire burned in it fierce, was crowded into a corner.
They then remembered having met him somewhere on the road, and one of them suggested that I might also be able to sell horse-rakes and threshing-machines. I told them I had thought some of putting in a few later on.
A man can do the work of two women, and do it better in every way, besides being capable of the heavier tasks of pitching, cock-making, &c., which the women cannot manage. Before the haymaking machines and horse-rakes came into vogue, it was not uncommon to see as many as twenty women following each other in échelon, turning a "wallow," or shaking up the green swathes left by the mowers.
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