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There was not room to turn aside. The car crashed into the hole, like a gigantic plow. It took one header over the side of the road and down several feet into the stream, just as the masked man and the driver jumped far ahead into the water. Safe now in our car which was slackening its terrific speed, I looked back. "They've been thrown!" I cried. "We're all right."
He wrote in 1841: "I have tried almost all systems, and unlike most planters do not like what is old. I hardly know anything old in corn or cotton planting but what is wrong." His particular enthusiasm now was for plow cultivation as against the hoe.
In a flash it came to me that men oughtn't to write letters to women very much they really don't plow deep enough, they just irritate the top soil.
"Bill, don't ask me anything. Father may tell you something to-morrow. God bless you, Bill. You have stood by me. Good-night." It must have been daylight before I worried my way into a sleep that seemed jagged and sharp-cornered with many an evil turn; and when I awoke the sun was shining. I looked out, and far across the field I saw Alf, walking behind his plow.
Joe threw his plow down in the furrow, cast the lines from his shoulders, and declared that he was starving. He vowed that he would not cultivate another row unless assured, then and there, that Isom would make an immediate enlargement in the bill-of-fare.
Said another: "The waive note is good for twenty years and when you sign one you must either pay out or die out." Said one man: "My people want all they can get on credit, not thinking of the day of settlement. We must learn to bore with a small augur first. The black man totes a heavy bundle, and when he puts it down there is a plow, a hoe, and ignorance."
Monday morning I was sent to the field to plow; and, though I was very stiff and my flesh seemed sore to the bone, my skin drawn and shriveled as if dead, I had, at least, to make the attempt to work. To have said: "Master, I am too sore to work," would only have gotten me another whipping. So I obeyed without a word.
I know she will coax you out of leaving her side long enough to plow a corn row if you are not careful. There'll be happy times for the weeds. Women of Rita's sort are like fire and water, Dic; they are useful and delightful, but dangerous. No man, however wise, knows their power. Egad! One of them would coax the face off of ye if she wanted it, before you knew you had a face.
"It's the volcano we have to thank for this," was my conjecture. "Its recent activity has caused some displacement of the sea bottom." Jackson's head went back in sudden comprehension. "It's a miracle you didn't plow into it under full sail." We had indeed come about in the very nick of time to avoid disaster. As matters stood I was hopeful.
Richard lit up the room with his smile. "Oh, Richard!" Sally felt in her purse with one hand. "What are you drinking?" Richard asked. "I'll see you guys," Oliver said, sliding to the end of the bench and standing. Sally took his place. "Thanks for the eats, Richard." "Stay warm," Richard said. A plow rumbled by, as Oliver stepped out into the storm. He followed it along the white empty street.
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