Like a piece of machinery, Aleck and his team worked together.

Quickly and neatly both driver and horses moved about their work with perfect understanding of each other.

With hardly a touch of the lines, but almost entirely by word of command, Aleck guided his team.

And when he took up the whiffletrees to swing them around to a log or stump, his horses wheeled at once into place.

It was beautiful to see them, wheeling, backing, hauling, pulling, without loss of time or temper.
With Don and his team it was all hard work.