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Rh The ankle-chain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse,
 * the cards of the gambler, the plates of
 * the forger,

What is seen or learnt in the street, or intuitively
 * learnt,

What is learnt in the public school, spelling, reading,
 * writing, ciphering, the black-board, the teacher's
 * diagrams,

The panes of the windows, all that appears through
 * them, the going forth in the morning, the aimless
 * spending of the day,

(What is it that you made money? What is it that you
 * got what you wanted?)

The usual routine, the work-shop, factory, yard, office,
 * store, desk,

The jaunt of hunting or fishing, and the life of hunting
 * or fishing,

Pasture-life, foddering, milking, herding, and all the
 * personnel and usages,

The plum-orchard, apple-orchard, gardening, seedlings,
 * cuttings, flowers, vines,

Grains, manures, marl, clay, loam, the subsoil
 * plough, the shovel, pick, rake, hoe, irrigation,
 * draining,

The curry-comb, the horse-cloth, the halter, bridle,
 * bits, the very wisps of straw,

The barn and barn-yard, the bins, mangers, mows,
 * racks,

Manufactures, commerce, engineering, the building of
 * cities, every trade carried on there, and the
 * implements of every trade,

The anvil, tongs, hammer, the axe and wedge, the
 * square, mitre, jointer, smoothing-plane,