The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . PEASANTS PLOWING but they were not nearly so burdensome as the serviceswhich the peasants owed their lord. Allthe labor of cultivating the lords 3?®. ° services. domain land was performed by plowed it with their great clumsy plows and ox-teams; they harrowed it, and sowed it, and weeded it,and reaped it; and finally they carted the sheaves tothe lords barns and thrcslKMl them by beating withgreat jointed clubs or Hails. And when the workwas done, the grain belonged entirely to the two days a
The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . PEASANTS PLOWING but they were not nearly so burdensome as the serviceswhich the peasants owed their lord. Allthe labor of cultivating the lords 3?®. ° services. domain land was performed by plowed it with their great clumsy plows and ox-teams; they harrowed it, and sowed it, and weeded it,and reaped it; and finally they carted the sheaves tothe lords barns and thrcslKMl them by beating withgreat jointed clubs or Hails. And when the workwas done, the grain belonged entirely to the two days a week were spent this way in workingon the lords domain; and the peasants conld onlywork on their own lands between times. In addition,if the lord decided to build new towers, or a new gate, 178 THE STOEY OF THE MIDDLE AGES or to erect new buildings in the castle, the peasantshad to carry stone and mortar for the building, andhelp the paid masons in every way IIAKKOWINGThe boy with the sliui, is driviug away birds And, when the demands of their lord were, satisfied,there were still other demands made upon them; for
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