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Updated: June 29, 2025
"What did you want father to do?" "Go and ask him." "No, I shan't; I shall ask you. Did you want him to buy something to help in the garden?" Morgan looked at me quietly and nodded. "What was it? a new spade?" "Nay, boy; but people to use spades and hoes 'specially the last." "But you can't buy people." "Can't you, boy?" "Only slaves. Oh, I say, Morgan!
Notwithstanding his ungracious answer, he probably thought that, after the gastronomic performance of the day previous, it would hardly do to hang back. At the house, we found Shorty ready with the hoes; and we at once repaired to the farther side of the inclosure, where the potatoes had yet to be taken out of the ground.
Corn-planting, which followed wheat-seeding, was done by hand, for a year or two, and this was a joyous task. We "changed works" with neighbor Button, and in return Cyrus and Eva came to help us. Harriet and Eva and I worked side by side, "dropping" the corn, while Cyrus and the hired man followed with the hoes to cover it.
I viewed the old tools hoes and spades and scythes and fag-hooks with quickened interest; and I speculated with more intelligence upon those aged people of the parish whose curious habits were described to me with so much respect. But of all the details that now gained significance, most to be noted were the hints of the comparative prosperity of that earlier time.
One looks like the guard of a basket-hilted sword; another has an upright stem of the metal, on which are placed branches worked at the ends into miniature axes, hoes, and spears; on these he was accustomed to present offerings, according as he desired favors to be conferred in undertaking hewing, agriculture, or fighting.
Whilst the brown mothers smoked and carried their babies, the men bore guns adorned with brass tacks, or leaned upon their short, straight, conical "spuds" and hoes, long-handled bits of iron whose points, after African fashion, passed through the wood. I nowhere saw the handsome carved spoons, the hafts and knife-sheaths figured by the Congo Expedition.
Although he was a nail-maker and a horse-shoer made axes, chisels, saws, and hammers for the artificer spades and hoes for the farmer bolts and fastenings for the lord's castle-gates, and chains for his draw-bridge it was principally because of his skill in armour-work that he was esteemed.
A consignment of spades, rakes, and hoes was delivered by the carrier, and arranged by the students in the new tool-shed. Miss Carr announced herself ready to begin her course of instruction. To the girls the crowning-point of the preparations was the opening of several large boxes posted from a London shop. They contained twenty land costumes in assorted sizes.
The articles most in demand were axes, hoes, cotton cards, hatchels for cleaning flax, hemp and cotton, spinning wheels, knives, and ammunition, guns, and bar shears for plows. In exchange for such goods the people traded beef, hides, furs, tallow, beeswax, and honey. Money was not needed or used by anyone everything was trade and barter. The people were generous and brave.
Crewe threw in his low speed. The five-year-old whirled, and bolted down the road at a pace which would have seemed to challenge a racing car; and the girl in the saddle, bending to the motion of the horse, was seen to raise her hand in warning. "Better stay whar you be," shouted one of the farmers; "don't go to follerin' her. The hoes is runnin' away." Mr.
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