| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 588 pages
...each with a long pronged pitch-fork, lift up one of thefe fmall cocks between them with the greatell eafe, and carry them one after another to the place where the tramp-cock is to be buih * : and in this manner they proceed over the field till the whole is finifhed. 1 The advantages... | |
| History - 1778 - 626 pages
...a long-pronged pitch-fork, lift up one of liiere small cocks Ъеtween them with the greatest ease, and carry them, one after another, to the place where...manner, they proceed over the field till the whole is finished. * * Tf the hay is to be carried fO any considerable distance, this part of the labour may... | |
| History - 1791 - 634 pages
...fork, lift up one of thefe fmall cocks between them with the greateft eafeż and carry them, one afcer another, to the place where the tramp-cock is to be...manner, they proceed over the field till the whole is finiihed. • « If the hay it to be carried to any confiderable di.lance, this part of the labour... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1804 - 620 pages
...time, unlefs it blows a hurricane. " In thefe cocks I allow the hay to remain, until, upon infpection, I judge that it will keep in pretty large tramp-cocks...manner they proceed over the field till the whole is nnilhcil. "The * If the hay is to be carried to any considerable diftance, this part of ft Tjle advantaes... | |
| James Grahame - Scottish poetry - 1821 - 342 pages
...with a long-pronged -pitch-fork, lift up one of these small cocks between them with the greatest ease, and carry them one after another to the place where...manner they proceed over the field till the whole is finished." Essays on Agriculture, Vol. ip IBS. Note VI. Beneath whose boughs the royal tent was stretched.—... | |
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