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With this in view, I set apart forty acres of high, dry land, for the feeding-grounds, twenty acres of which was devoted to the cows; and I now found that this twenty-acre lot would provide an ample exercise field for twice that number. The sod was kept in good condition and the field free from weeds, by the use of the mowing-machine, set high, every ten or twenty days, according to the season.
For example: just as the mowing-machine saves the mowers, the threshing-machine saves the threshers from rheumatism and chest complaints, which they used to catch in the draught and dust of the unhealthiest place in the whole parish, which is, the old-fashioned barn's floor.
Bobolink was gathering her children hastily about her when Bobby came hurrying back from a trip to the farm buildings. He had seen as well as heard the mowing-machine. And he knew there was no time to waste. "Are you ready?" he called as he fluttered quickly down beside his family. "Yes!" said Mrs. Bobolink. "You haven't forgotten anything?" She counted her children carefully before answering.
As he came down the drive and approached the old red-brick front of the house, there was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms, and from distant lawns the whir of a mowing-machine, that most restful of all country sounds.... And in the hall a man was banging at a locked door, and shouting, "Open the door, I say; open the door!"
But all hopes of this sort were cut off by Master Arthur's voice shouting to him from the garden "Hi there! I want you, Willie! Come here, I say." Bill ran through the evergreens, and there among the flower-beds in the sunshine he saw first, John Gardener driving a mowing-machine over the velvety grass under Master Arthur's very nose, so there was no getting a private interview with him.
Such a machine could start at one end of an army and go through to the other like a mowing-machine through a field of wheat; and knock down all the buildings in New York afterward, smash all the cars, break down all the bridges, and sink all the shipping. Inherent Power of a Fleet. An idea of the power exertable by a fleet of modern ships may be derived from the following comparison.
Both banks are dotted with hippopotamus traps, over every track which these animals have made in going up out of the water to graze. The hippopotamus feeds on grass alone, and, where there is any danger, only at night. Its enormous lips act like a mowing-machine, and form a path of short-cropped grass as it feeds. We never saw it eat aquatic plants or reeds.
And he woke Rebecca, who had to be up so early. There he stood pale, come out of the depths of darkness, in the hot room, blinking at the light. No, it could not be a straw-bordered underwing. The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again. Now it was clouding over.
But this this mowing-machine of his 'twas a crawling nest of steel springs and hooks and apparatus, and hundreds of screws Inger's sewing-machine was a bookmarker compared with this! Isak harnessed himself to the shafts and tried the thing. Here was the wonderful moment. And that was why he kept out of sight and was his own horse.
"Aunt Jemima best of all," replied Nina saucily, "because she's the eldest, and tries to keep me in order, but she can't." "And which of us next best, Nina?" continued he, turning away with extraordinary interest in a mowing-machine. "Aunt Susannah, of course." This very demurely, while tightening her pretty lips to keep back a laugh.
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