Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-29

AyOOWHfS tts w. 'SS~'Ns>N 49, afAAts ditcC
the dilaefs Of the former day of in.auc:-
ton, was juf going cot upon new en-.
terprIze. From, his FRY Seizure had been
petty esrehilyeIy bsrb!scd The doctrine,
that property oushtsto be common, aad
the sefait Of iaboss, which ihooId alto De
common. This dottritte was to nun.
Ter Of his people altogetier popular Gle.
Encoui a sed by the recepuon with Which
il met, the IPniIdolheFha .proPofed, on
this day, 10 go out INFO a common fed
with ieyeral teams and ssarnments OF ,hd-
bandry, to plough the field sccorslng, TO
the rev fyitem Of philanthropy. All .erS
70 labour alike, andail were to be ted
alike with the produce, OF the labouE.-
We Immediately joined the oomrany,wh
were iua entering the field, whxh lay in
the luburbs OF the City OF PeJeaatn;.
he helc was covered with sseen iwari.
A few a'mps Of trees, and not i!nsl
number of tones aud rocks, fome Of them
OF comfortable fize, were feattered over
rs furface.
The Philosopher, .hime!f, TO fet the
example, took hold Of one ct the plougts,
and directed the pIough-bsy to drive the
team onward. Il 1t had leyer plough.
ed any thirg before, except mcsaphyfcal
fields, which he had always taken care
to have finoothed and meilewed to hislk-
ing plain farmers ploughing in rough
ground mutt be fuppofed to have been s'-
tended with feverai irconveniencies, not
the Iels dilagreeabie becaufe they were
new.
The frG difficulty which the philotorher
met with was, that he could not Keep me
c5l.er in the ground. All his efforts lki'l
he had none) did not frfice The oxen
drew the plough our as iaa as he put 1t IN.
A. his TEN per was meek in appearance Ia
Their than reality, ne began loon to com.
plain of The plough boy, the team, ard
The plough, and roundly pronounced
,hs m good for nothing. The farmers,
who accompanied from q cafioii'y &c Zee
learned man plough, laughed and jeited
| as he went on, and contributed very 1T
! tie 10 the reforation OF his good humour.
The Philolopaer was dreiled, according
to his dignity, in robe, long and flow
up. One of the plough handles caught
| his robe, and made a large rent in II.
Plague On the plough! texclalned the
PhiIofopher.} 49, -.
You ought to Gay plague on the plough
man (rep:ied one Of the farmers.) ! he
plough is mine, and as good one as ever
turned furrow.
I can do nothing with it (anfwered
the Philoiopher.) Tha. is beeauie you
don't know how (fsid the sarmer.l l.u
men of learning think, becauie you have
read few books, that YOU know every
thing; and that we farmers, becaaie we
rave not read them, know nothing. Bat
[ Zee you know as little Of our buinei' as
We do OF yours. Give me the plough.
You will feel can make it keep thr :o-
r,w. NJ, my friend laid the Phi'oio-
pier, with look Of b-nisnity) Will
tinilh the furrow which | have bssun'
AMI then will give il toyou.
Very we'll (aniwcred the farmer) you
pleaie for that. JuA then the plough,
having ftrock againit root Of one of the
ffumps, which food at a !inall d'iiance
from its courlc, tuck, fat. The team
topped. The piough- boy hallewed. W6e6,
Wbeb, fben!! The Philosopher, recover
ing .himf:lf floma violent twitch, which,
the motion of the plough Lad giyea him,
ordered the boy to back the team sad
with a hard pull lugged the plough over
the. root. The team went on, n'aSiTs
fome,ines breach in the f.ard, ana
fome.imes Aiding over it.
We fhould make fad work Of getting
living laid one Of the farmersj If re
ploughed our land in this manner. That
we lhoull (rplied anotherl and ~ss 60
ing on; when The Plough, ftrikins a large
fsone, bounded violently againf the Fiji
lofopher's lhin, and knocked him down.
I The PhiloE3pher aroaned.