text:  "But suppose the contrary of all this to happen; suppose that the plough-irons and harrow-tines have to be laid and sharpened when perhaps to-morrow they may be wanted in the field--a stack to be thrashed for seed-corn or for horse's corn in the midst of the sowing of a field--suppose too that only a week's work has been lost in winter of a single pair of horses and the consequence is that six acres of land have to be ploughed when they should be sown that is a loss of a whole day of six pair of horses or of two days of three pair--suppose all these inconveniences to happen in the busy season and the provoking reflection occurs that the loss incurred now was occasioned by trifling offputs in winter