The plow is a long beam with a most primitive share in the middle, a cow at one end, and a boy at the other.

The grain is cut with a sickle and threshed with a flail on the barn floor, as in Scripture times.

Manure is scattered over the fields with the hands.

There was a certain pleasure in studying these old-time ways.

I caught glimpses of the anti-revolutionary epoch, when the king ruled the state and the nobles held the lands.