He didn't care for grubbing out stumps, or splitting posts and rails.

We sliced the potatoes of an evening -- and there was trouble

between Mary and James over cutting through the `eyes'.

There was no time for the hoe -- and besides it wasn't a novelty to James --

so I just ran furrows and they dropped the spuds in behind me,

and I turned another furrow over them, and ran the harrow over the ground.

I think I hilled those spuds, too, with furrows -- or a crop of Indian corn

It rained heavens-hard for over a week: we had regular showers all through,