And, by way of humbling himself, Isak determines to give up his plan of making Eleseus a tiller of soil in the wilds; he will never say a word of it again.
For the farmer, it must be remembered, wheat was the measure of his labor, the product of his toil under the summer sun;and in its price he found the test of his prosperity.
Well, on such a day as this, if he had his buffalo and his plow as he had always had in other years, he would have gone out and plowed up that cracked soil.