So a dozen men hurled their bodies through, making an opening for the horses.
"Hi! YUP!" shouted the three teamsters, gathering up their reins.
The horses put their heads down and plunged.

The whole apparatus moved with a rush, men clinging, animals digging their hoofs in, snow flying.
Suddenly there came a check, then a CRACK, and then the plow shot forward so suddenly and easily that the horses all but fell on their noses.

The flanging arms of the V, forced in a place too narrow, had caught between heavy stubs.

One of the arms had broken square off.
There was nothing for it but to fell another hemlock and hew out another beam, which meant a day lost.

Radway occupied his men with shovels in clearing the edge of the road, and started one of his sprinklers over the place already cleared.