You see the
other chap may be feelin' worse than you."
"By Jove, Tim! you're a born general!" exclaimed Cameron. "You will
go some distance if you keep on in that line. Now as to racing let me
venture a word, for I have done a little in my time. Don't spurt too
soon."
"Eh!" said Tim, all eagerness.
"Don't get into your racing stride too early in the day, especially if
you are up against a stronger man. Wait till you know you can stay till
the end and then put your best licks in at the finish."
Tim pondered.
"By Jimminy! you're right," he cried, a glad light in his eye, and a
touch of colour in his pale cheek, and Cameron knew he was studying war.
The turnip field, let it be said for the enlightening of the benighted
and unfortunate city-bred folk, is laid out in a series of drills, a
drill being a long ridge of earth some six inches in height, some eight
inches broad on the top and twelve at the base. Upon each drill the seed
has been sown in one continuous line from end to end of the field. When
this seed has grown each drill will discover a line of delicate green,
this line being nothing less than a compact growth of young turnip
plants with weeds more or less thickly interspersed. The operation of
hoeing consists in the eliminating of the weeds and the superfluous
turnip plants in order that single plants, free from weeds, may be left
some eight inches apart in unbroken line, extending the whole length
of the drill.
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