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Updated: June 13, 2025
A happy thought occurred to me infants were always tickled with watches! But, alas I had pawned mine. However, I had a gold locket in my pocket, with my picture in it, which I had bought in Chicago, to present to the widow, and didn't present: this I drew forth and dangled before the eyes of the little infernal threshing-machine.
Hundreds of people go there, and the trees are carved all over with their immortal names. A pleasant ride over a rich rolling country, with an occasional strip of forest, brought us to Union in the evening, with no other adventure than the meeting of a steam threshing-machine in the road, with steam up, clattering along.
All the time the cannon was booming in the northeast, but they paid no more attention to it than if it were a threshing-machine. There was a young lieutenant in the group who finally noticed a sort of reluctance on my part-which I evidently had not been able to conceal to looking off at the plain, which I own I had been surprised to find as lovely as ever.
It is not needful to have them near home or keep them, now the threshing-machine has stayed the flail and emptied the barns. Perhaps these are the only two losses to those who look at things and mete them with the eye the corn-ricks and the barns. The corn-ricks were very characteristic, but even now you may see plenty if you look directly after harvest.
The Duchess, furious, tried to make her swallow some mineral water, but in vain; then she exclaimed: "Oh, the little simpleton! That daughter of hers will turn her head. I beg of you, Guilleroy, prevent your wife from committing this folly." The Count, who was explaining to Musadieu the system of a threshing-machine invented in America, had not been listening. "What folly, Duchess?"
There was noise and excitement enough in connection with the dust and work, the puffing of the engine, the whir and shake and rattle of the threshing-machine, and the raised voices of the men calling to each other or giving orders. The engineer and the feeders and cutters were conceded to have the most responsible positions, but the duties of the other workers were also important.
With every precaution taken a dragging pine-tree coupled on behind the load to serve instead of the squealing brakes, and many injunctions to the driver to take it easy and to do his swearing internally the outfit made more noise than a threshing-machine bumping down the gulch. We kept pace with it, Barrett and I, following along the crest of the spur with an apprehensive eye on the Lawrenceburg.
Such memories read strange to the present generation, proving thereby that the threshing-machine has already grown old. It is so accepted that the fields would seem to lack something if it were absent. It is as natural as the ricks: things grow old so soon in the fields.
The year whirls round like the toothed cylinder in a threshing-machine, blowing out the chaff in clouds, but quietly dropping the rich kernels within our reach. And it will always be so. Men will sow their notions and reap harvests, but the inexorable age will winnow out the truth, and scatter to the winds whatsoever is error.
She might have paraphrased the mental attitude of the immortalised Peter Bell into A basket underneath a tree A yellow tiger is to me, If it is nothing more. The more really alarming episodes of the road, the hoot and whir of a passing motor-car or the loud vibrating hum of a wayside threshing-machine, were treated with indifference.
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