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Three cows, ten or twelve sheep, a few pigs and a yoke of strong oxen comprised the live stock horses, they had none for many years. A great ox-cart was the only wheeled vehicle on the place, and this, in winter, gave place to a heavy sled, the runners cut from a tree having a natural crook and roughly, but strongly, made.
There are artifices and artifices, and some are better than others. The automobile is a more cunning artifice than the ox-cart, the subway than a palanquin. Devices come and devices go. Change is the essence of progress. All is development. The end of rapes and romances is the same perpetuation. There may be head love as well as heart love.
An ox-cart was lying right across the road. After shouting himself hoarse the policeman woke up an old man in a house near by the owner. He rheumatically grumbled in his doorway; so the gendarme called our Albanians, and in two twos they had turned the cart upside down in a ditch, saying "It serves you right." Voices sounded in the darkness. The carriages lurched on.
Sancho bowed his head very respectfully and kissed both his hands, for, being tied together, he could not kiss one; and then the apparitions lifted the cage upon their shoulders and fixed it upon the ox-cart.
So the Ocklawaha River and a score of its kind roam through the woods, or maybe it is the woods that roam through them, and the moss sways from the live-oaks, and the cypress trees stick their knees up through the water in the oddest way imaginable. In Florida one may have another odd experience: a river ride in an ox-cart.
Here I began a few miles of walking, occasionally varied by ox-cart locomotion. At one point, for the sake of company, I joined a group and took a turn at shoving the family wheel-barrow. They poured out thanks in the guttural Flemish tongue, then loaded me with bread and bits of mouldy pie. When that was not accepted they feared for their hospitality.
As game was killed, it was stowed away in what hunters call a cache that is, a hole for hiding and securing what we wished from the depredations of wolves and other wild animals; and then the ox-cart, when it was practicable but generally, in winter, a sled drawn by hand was sent out to bring in the game.
And then look at that are pauper, dragged away in that ox-cart from his wife for ever, like a feller to States' Prison, and you see Lazarus. Recollect what follered, John Porter, and have neither art nor part in it, as you are a Christian man. It fairly made me sick all day. John Porter follered me out of the house, and as I was a turnin old Clay, said he, Mr.
He had gone aloft on the wheel of a clumsy great ox-cart in which some of the men had come to the auction, and he was looking over people's heads, and seeing every thing that was sold. I saw he was not ready to come away, so I was not in a hurry. I heard Mrs. Wallis say to one of her friends, "You just go in and take that rug with the flowers on't, and go and put it in your wagon.
Presently the latter asked me kindly enough if I thought I should be sufficiently strong to trek back to the station that afternoon in an ox-cart with springs to it and lying at full length upon a hide-strung "cartel" or mattress. I answered, "Certainly," as I should have done had I been at the point of death, for I saw that he wished to be rid of me.
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