He sent in some men, as much to give them something to do as for any real good, one day, who in a few hours pulled up enough docks to fill a cart.

They came across a number of snakes, and decapitated the reptiles with their hoes, and afterwards hung them all up--tied together by the tail--to a bough.

The bunch of headless snakes hangs there still, swinging to and fro as the wind plays through the oak.
Vermin, too, revel in weeds, which encourage the mice and rats, and are, perhaps, quite as much a cause of their increase as any acts of the gamekeeper.
Farmer Smith a few years since was very anxious for the renewal of his lease, just as those about to enter on tenancies desired leases above everything.

All the agricultural world agreed that a lease was the best thing possible--the clubs discussed it, the papers preached it.

It was a safeguard; it allowed the tenant to develop his energies, and to put his capital into the soil without fear.