They were for ever at work tearing up the subsoil and bringing it to the surface.

If he could have done it, he would have ploughed ten feet deep.

Tons of artificial manure came by canal boat--positively boat loads--and were stored in the warehouse.

For he put up a regular warehouse for the storage of materials; the heavy articles on the ground floor, the lighter above, hoisted up by a small crane.

There was, too, an office, where the 'engineer' attended every morning to take his orders, as the bailiff might at the back-door of an old farmhouse.