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Updated: June 3, 2025
But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train.
The entire slope was yellow with wheat on either hand, and in front the surface of the crop extended unbroken by hedge, tree, or apparent division. Two reaping-machines were being driven rapidly round and round, cutting as they went; one was a self-binder and threw the sheaves off already bound; the other only laid the corn low, and it had afterwards to be gathered up and bound by hand-labour.
One day, a few years before his death, Prince Bismarck was driving on his estate, closely following a self-binder that had recently been put to work. The venerable statesman, bent and feeble, seemed to find a deep melancholy interest in the operation. "Show me the thing that ties the knot," he said. It was taken to pieces and explained to him in detail.
As daughter and wife she had learned much of the art of agriculture, and, after some consultation with a neighbor who seemed to be successful, she made her own plans. In her make up, sentiment was balanced with sense. Even as a young wife she had sometimes driven the mower or the self-binder to "help-out," and she had found pleasure and health in such hours of out-door life.
A new seeder brought in some money, and with rubber boots, snowshoes, baseballs, carpenters' tools, spectacles, lumber, and an agency for a self-binder as side issues, I see myself getting on in the world.
"How long was it until you discovered this Gopher spot?" says I. "Near a dozen years," says he, "and during that time, Sir, I've had a whirl at more different kinds of industry than you'd believe existed, from runnin' a self-binder to canvassin' for the Life of James A. Garfield. It was Possum Oil that brought me good luck.
But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train.
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