> >More, a carl is someone who can turn up on the right day with
> >an ox team and plough, even if they are 'borrowed' from his
> >father/brother/friends.
>
>Isn't everybody plowing at the same time, though? (In which case, you're even
>more correct if they can manage to borrow the oxen.)
Within a few weeks anyway. Many real world villages coped with a single plough and/or oxen team that did different people's fields in turn. There's a pressure, but not so much that borrowing a plough is beyond possibilities.
Cheers,
Graham
-- Graham Robinson graham_at_... Albion Software Engineering Ltd.
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