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...furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard to be his better half, but it was rock-like Uncle Lafe who kept his hand to the plough. And to such good purpose that when Uncle Lafe died Tyler had learnt his lesson. The years of stormy peace quieted into real peace at last: Tyler dropped Minnie, took up with his wife, was glad to be a farmer...
...years of 1914-18 and presents them in crisp, classic profile. Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This...
...Middletown, Md., while hoeing his garden. William H. Keller unearthed an eight-inch dud shell, probably fired in the battle of South Mountain, 1862. Twenty-five years ago William H. Keller's brother John was killed when his plough struck a similar shell...
Heather Reveller of Sporran, a Scotch terrier built like a midget plough horse, whose owner. Author Willard Huntington WTright ("S. S. Van Dine"), has kennels at Haworth...
...earnest committees throughout the land have been called upon for a solution. Some, driven to despair, if not insanity, have recommended the destruction of whatever there happened to be a surplus of. Such a remedy was the Federal Farm Board's recommendation - never followed - that cotton farmers plough under every third row (TIME...