That would be a harrowing experience,indeed, for any young blade brazen enough to test his steel on't. 'T is an easy thing, withal, to ignore a clod, to dismiss a clod, to cut through a clod; but when you work in fields where nothing else may be seen, but clods without end in every direction, and nothing but an ass to work them with, it can be a dismal prospect, sir, dismal.


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