The nettles shrivelled up dry, and the wool did not stick to them, but could be gathered easily.
With his own hands he would carry out a quart of beans to the pigs---just a quart at a time and no more, that they might eat every one and that none might be wasted.

So, too, he would carry them a few acorns in his coat-pocket, and watch the relish with which the swine devoured their favourite food.

He saved every bit of crooked wood that was found about the place; for at that date iron was expensive, and wood that had grown crooked and was therefore strong as well as curved was useful for a hundred purposes.

Fastened to a wall, for instance, it did for a hook upon which to hang things.

If an apple-tree died in the orchard it was cut out to form part of a plough and saved till wanted.
Jonathan's hard head withstood even the whirl of the days when corn was at famine prices.