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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
  • Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:42:54 EST


> >City people think Country people are dumb, uneducated, easily manipulated
> hicks. Ruralites think that people living in the city are weak , soft,
> p*ssies. Both views are naiive.

Many of us have lived in cities and very large cities at that. No matter how
fit someone thinks they are because of a few rounds of handball or thrice
visits to gym, they cannot endure the rigors of continuous physical work
unless
the slowly condition to it.

City popinjays have come here and wanted to try their hand at the bucksaw at
the wood pile. Young, strapping, seemingly fit people and after ten minutes
they can hardly breathe or move. And yet we keep it up for two hours at a
time with hardly a pause. I'll never forget the look on one visitor's face
when
the (then) 9 year old daugher hoisted up the 50 lb sack of corn and carried
it
uphill to the barn. Or when Herself told me to fetch some more cabbage and
when I said I'd go off to the garden and get some, the remark was "You don't
mean you are going to WALK there??!!" Sure it's the equivalent of six blocks
away and on he way from the garden back to the house you will be 100 feet
higher
than when you started, we don't think anything of it and make the walk as
many as twenty times in a day.

No, our opinion that the city dweller is quite the marshmallow compared to
small farm worker is quite well founded. The belief that there is not much
difference is what is naive.


James




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