Chapter13 Summary

Hattie writes her article for the Arlington News - Honyocker's Homily, and announces that she is finally able to begin sowing seed. She hooks Plug up with a neck halter and harness and then to the plow, and once Plug realizes she is serious, he gets to work. Rooster Jim rides by and is more than a little amused by her progress, suggesting between guffaws that she try plowing a straight line rather than a circle. Later Karl stands with her, looking over the field, and in German he announces that it is nothing good and gestures her need for a machine to do the work. Hattie can't help but agree, feeling she will be ninety before it is finished.

Perilee has accepted Hattie's gift of a rocker, and her help doing laundry and other chores she is unable to do now, and...