Sickle

,—a reaping hook, to cut the corn at harvest.—This is another instrument, the use of which is daily declining; as gentlemen of landed property are got into a way of parcelling out their land into sheep-walks, lawns, and parks for deer to run about in. Besides this, the rustic, instead of cultivating the earth (the produce of which he may scarcely be said to share) amuses himself by entering into some volunteer corps, where he gets a horse and a pewter watch, a suit of clothes, and the name of a gentleman!