The quiet, unoffending farmer was fined twenty-five pounds and threatened with banishment, and when he failed to pay, was imprisoned in New Amsterdam for three months.
One of the judges fled down the mountain to Sperry's house and gave the alarm, and the farmer and the fugitives hunted the panther the rest of the night.
That remark, innocently made, startedFarmer Dunham's tongue to wagging.
Mrs. Talbot and Fergus and Nigel each carried a bag of gold pieces, all that they had been able to gather in Maryland; and next morning they paid the farmer well for their food and lodging.
Jack looked and saw men coming into the road, a good many of them, more than he thought he had seen at Farmer Robins' house.
The farmercontinued very kind to me in his own deceitful way; but the meat that we got was very bad.
Every one of them thought the Gorb had the worst of it, and that the farmer was sure of the day.
Broke Farmer Barnes for contempt and disobedience of orders.
Farmer Rycker's wife and daughter came over to tell and hear the news, and yet they were not come.
Farmer Blackstone felt a little toryish in his thoughts, but the chance to sell logs and split slabs so near home as Valley Forge was not likely to happen again, and he worked away with strong good will to furnish building material.
The overland emigrants were largely of farmer stock; whether they had possessed frontier experience or not before the start, the 3000-mile journey toughened and seasoned all who reached California.
Congress in its laws sought to dispose of lands by auction to the highest bidder,--a scheme through which the sturdy impecunious farmer saw his clearing in danger of being bought over his modest bid by an undeserving speculator.
The entry of every American farmer was a violation of good faith and law, and so the Indians regarded it.
Civil retribution was more severe, and fell, with judicial irony, on the farmer Sioux who had been drawn reluctantly into the struggle.
Here, as elsewhere, the frontier farmerpaid little regard to the legal basis of his life.
Yet the board was right in that its influence in bringing closer harmony between public opinion and the Indian Bureau, and in improving the tone of the bureau, had made the transformation of the savage into the citizen farmer more rapid.
Retribution was certain whether they continued war or not, and the farmer Indians were unlikely to be distinguished from the blankets by angry frontiersmen.
Every western farmer was ready to start, with his own wagons and his own stock.
The farmer must always have right of way against the hunter, and the trader against the pilferer, and law against self-help and private war.
It may be so, for little things count so surely; it may be the reason he is today a sun-browned farmer instead of a lily-white clerk in his father's store.
Hitching his mare to his lightest buggy, for the roads were rivers, the farmer drove through the slush and the remnant drifts to the corner tavern where Neal had been.
There was a farmer whose neighbor built a curious tower upon his land.
Henry now came forward--a tall, bonyfarmer in high boots and an old wool-lined leather coat, and a cap of wool.
You go out here along the Cheevertown road about a mile or two and ask any farmer this side of the creek to let you have a good big handful of peach sprigs--about so many, see?
One of his patients was a farmer who lived in an old-time log house a few miles out from Silver Lake, who while working about his barn met with a very serious accident which involved a possible injury to the gall bladder.
This oft-quoted saying of the old farmer in the Self-Tormentor of Terence might be affixed as motto to Herbert Spencer's writings from the tractate on the Proper Sphere of Government to the concluding volume of the Principles of Sociology.
Dat white man certainly act curi's," Pete mused, as he leaned on the handle of his hoe and stared at the spot where the farmer had disappeared in the woods.
Hurriedly, Garner explained the situation, ending by asking the farmer if he could see any way of getting Willis out of town.
The farmer pulled his long brown beard, his eyes still on Pete's face; it was as if he had not caught the boy's last remark.
Consequently, he is neither in the position of the farmernor of the labourer.
After some further conversation the parties agreed upon the price, the farmer buying his own hogs from the tramp, who went on his way rejoicing.
In this place he came near being discovered, for in a couple of hours the farmer came out to feed his cattle, and as chance would have it took the hay from the stack under which the convict was secreted.
One afternoon, at the end of three weeks, the old farmer rode up for whom the ex-convict had stated that he worked.
The farmer needs a hand, but asks the applicant for whom he worked last.
A farmer came to the city one day, driving a beautiful horse.
The temptation was too great, and the man who had been an inmate of a penitentiary seven different times followed the unsuspecting farmer to his home, and that night rode away the coveted prize.
He did not renew his journey until the farmer and his family had retired and were in the land of dreams.
The farmer said he was making up a car load and would give him as much as he could get in town.
At this frank confession the farmer slightly coughed, and stated that a man called the day before, and he had partially promised the place to him, and he did not feel like employing any one until he heard from him.
On making further inquiries for work, he learns of a farmer living several miles away, who desired hired help.
The old farmerthat went to so much trouble to convey the intelligence to his brother granger that the hero of our story was an ex-convict, was the sufferer.
The particulars of his crime are as follows: He was a well-to-do farmer residing in Neosho County, and never had any difficulty to amount to anything before this time.
Shortly afterwards came Liebard, the farmer of Toucques, short, rotund and ruddy, wearing a grey jacket and spurred boots.
Then her mother died and her sisters went their different ways; a farmer took her in, and while she was quite small, let her keep cows in the fields.
Ignorance means bankruptcy for the poor farmer now.
This was John Fairfield, the only gentleman farmer in the community, and one of the few men whose wife was not implicated in the Woman's Movement.
Every farmermade straight for the Women's Cooeperative Store.
Not one of them could she persuade to help her pick up the seeds which the farmer had sown.
THE COCK AND THE FOX A FOX went prowling about a farmyard, not seeing a trap which the farmer had hidden there to catch him.
In a fit of compassion the Farmer brought him carefully to his house, and laid him near the fire.
They've had a rousing time while it lasted, and now they've made up their minds to take what comes, only they'd rather not meet the farmer if it could be avoided.
The farmer plants his corn, and then lets it alone, and as there are no weeds to molest it, at the end of the season he harvests a fair crop.
How often is the farmer interrupted in the business of hay-making, by the cry that his bees are swarming; and by the time he has hived them, perhaps a shower comes up, and his hay is injured more than his swarm is worth.
If a farmer persists in what is called "breeding in and in," that is, from the same stock without changing the blood, it is well known that a rapid degeneracy is the inevitable consequence.
But the most aggravating spectacle of all was captivating Polly, chatting gayly with young Farmer Brown, who was evidently losing both head and heart in the light of her smiles.
Right in the worst of it, as a farmer and his wife sat by the fire that night, they heard a cry at the door.
The young man and the old, the farmer and the laird, sat still.
Old Farmer Low--and a tough customer he is, too; it's a word and a blow with him.
Farmer Grey considered it acceptable to the God who painted the rainbow, and expanded the lily, and tinted the rose, to walk the bright earth with his head bowed like a bulrush, and his soul clad in sackcloth.
You're a stranger in these parts," said a roughfarmer to a sun-burnt traveller.
Why Zedekiah, and Timothy, and Jonathan, and the old farmer himself, must go round the house in order to get into it?
If a young Englishman wishes to try farming in Canada, he cannot do better than hire himself to a farmer for a year or two and keep his money in his pocket for the purchase of a farm.
In Ontario thefarmer has his crops protected by a belt of trees from the inclemency of the weather.
He did not approve of the Government plan of emigration; but he did think there was a fine field in Canada for the British farmer and his men.
But, then, in Manitoba the farmer has this advantage, that he has not to devote the greater part of his time and money to the cutting down of his trees.
I should be loth to spend the remainder of my days here; but a farmer may make a living, and so may a farm-labourer.
It is true there have been instances where settlers have succeeded on this sum, but with such a sum as £200, Manitoba offers the farmer advantages such as no other place offers him.
The man who will succeed is the farmer with a small capital.
At any rate, no farmer here is in danger of losing all his capital—most of them are well off, and their sons and daughters prosper as well.
I had a queer chat this morning with an old Canadian farmer who landed at Le Sault.
The emigrant in these parts must not be surprised at the occasional appearance of an Indian; and perhaps it is well that the farmer takes care of his horses.
On the Province of Ontario as a home for the British farmer he had much to say.
And Jimmy Rabbit made up his mind, before he came away from Farmer Green's barn, that he wanted to make pictures himself.
Down inFarmer Green's garden Jimmy worked busily, loading his new wheelbarrow to the very top.
You might almost think that Farmer Green himself ought to have hung that basket.
And afterward I'll go down to Farmer Green's and get a cabbage for you.
One of them was already finished, and filled with things that Jimmy himself liked--such as strips of tender bark from Farmer Green's young fruit trees, and bits of turnip from his vegetable cellar.
And before a week had passed he just hated the sight of Farmer Green's garden.
Jimmy had changed his mind about Farmer Green's garden.
Never before had he seen so many of his neighbors in Farmer Green's garden.
But down at Farmer Green's, all over the front of the barn, you'll find the most beautiful pictures anyone could ask for.
He was an old woodchuck who lived in Farmer Green's pasture.
The pressing is done by the feet, assisted by a blunt spade, and the bales are generally very creditably turned out, the sheep-farmer priding himself on a neatly pressed bale.
I was able to command constant employment in any colonial capacity, and had been more than once offered the overseership of a run, but the old distaste for the life of a sheep-farmer was as strong as ever.
Smith, whose name will frequently appear in these pages, and two brothers called Leach, going out to join a rich cousin, a sheep farmer in Canterbury.
McLean was a wealthy sheep farmerwho had originally made his money on the Australian goldfields.
The farmer appealed with another humorous cast of his eye to Lander; but the old man tacitly refused to take any further part in the talk, which began to flourish apace, in question and answer, between his wife and the man in the hay-field.
The farmer pulled his fork out of the ground, and planted it with his person at new slopes in the figure of a letter A, rather more upright than before.
