... Another common reason given is that the rein prevents a horse from picking up things in the road. This, no doubt, is true in a few cases in which horses have the habit of picking up garbage, but a very loose rein is enough to prevent this, and it seems hardly ...

... T When we pegan determinedly to dig up the soil—backbreaking work at any time, but worse now when one had to bend and pick out the weeds from every spadeful -the great clods of marly-looking clay presented an appalling spectacle o the man whose horticultural ...