While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely an...d fatally?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed co...rn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,... An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge... Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close... your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And poet lost to potato-fields, Remembering the lime and copper smell... Of the spraying barrels he is not lost Or till blossomed stalks cannot weave a spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures, and not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and h...is orchards,--raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering an...d of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »