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Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
...PLOUGHMAN OF THE MOON - Robert Service- Dodd, Mead...
...waiting in Hollywood to return to his French home, Autobiographer Service is in no rush to bring his reminiscences up to date. (Ploughman of the Moon is only the first half of Robert Service's autobiography. He ends it as he sets off for the Balkans as a pre-World War I correspondent for the Toronto Star.) He is "only 70." "If I am allowed," he says, "I may write the second half of my life when I am 80. Perhaps it will be the more interesting...
...service, a Sussex ploughman asked Dr. George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester, to bless the plough, "the sign of all our labor in the countryside." The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters . . . in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough...
...have been right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads." On war: "A lot of us may be maimed or dead very soon, but that can't be helped...