. The Cincinnatus. Agriculture -- Ohio; Agriculture -- United States. SSSY.] Clironiclcs of a Clay Farm. 437 Now this was not a fair question. Spirit-levels (if they had any- meaning or existence at all) were unintelligible, mathematical-look- ing instruments of purely professional nature, only seen (if ever) in the hands of road-surveyors' assistants and people of that sort. They had nothing whatever to do with farming. The question was unfair: it contairaed an ambiguous term. Picture to yourself, however, the following conclusion from it. A bleak, foggy, November day; a long rambling space,
. The Cincinnatus. Agriculture -- Ohio; Agriculture -- United States. SSSY.] Clironiclcs of a Clay Farm. 437 Now this was not a fair question. Spirit-levels (if they had any- meaning or existence at all) were unintelligible, mathematical-look- ing instruments of purely professional nature, only seen (if ever) in the hands of road-surveyors' assistants and people of that sort. They had nothing whatever to do with farming. The question was unfair: it contairaed an ambiguous term. Picture to yourself, however, the following conclusion from it. A bleak, foggy, November day; a long rambling space, marsh or meadow, as you might choose to call it, of some twenty acres in ex- tent, and about the third part of a mile in length, with a nar- row, thick plantation of rushes, sedges, and brook-lime, and such aquatic vegetation, threading its way in one long dank line from end to end, by su:-h fantastic meandering, that it looked as if the hidden channel of choked moisture it concealed had been making a continued series of esperiments from time out of mind in search of an outlet; and after centuries of struggle and disappoint- ment had at length arrived, quite by accident, at a certain point at one end of the meadow—where you might see a pair of high mud boots standing, or rather soaking, with a man in them, peering through a telescope on three legs, as if he was watching for the total eclipse of a small bay that is to be seen—gradually sinking— about fifty yards off, and clutching in his agony a high staff by his side, figured as if for high and low water-mark. Presently the Boots and the Telescope, after various ineffectual efforts and heavings, succeed in striking their quarters ; the boy, after sundry spasmodic struggles, to correspond, achieves the same exploit; and the same scene as before occurs again some fifty yards. V. Has it ever teea tried witb a Spirit-level I". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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