Date: 1899
For example : just as the mowing-machine saves the mowers, the threshing machine saves the threshers from rheumatism and chest complaints, which they used to catch in the draught and dust of the unhealthiest place in the whole parish, which is, the old-fashioned barn's floor.  And so, we may hope, in future years all heavy drudgery and dirty work will be done more and more by machines , and people will have more and more chance of keeping themselves clean and healthy, and more and more time to read, and learn, and think, and be true civilised men and women, instead of being mere live ploughs, or live manure-carts, such as I have seen ere now.  A live manure-cart ?