How bowed the wood beneath their sturdy stroke;”
and from Gray he came down to the far-famed “Bull Run” affair in the recent American civil war, a graphic account of which told that “the teamsters cut the traces of the horses.”
The counsel for the farmer, on the other hand, referred to Richardson’s English dictionary, and to Bosworth’s Anglo-Saxon dictionary, for support to the assertion that a team implies only the horses, not the vehicle also; and he then gave the following citations to the same effect: From Spenser,—
“Thee a ploughman all unmeeting found,
As he his toilsome team that way did guide.
And brought thee up a ploughman’s state to bide.”
From Shakespeare,—
“We fairies that do run,
By the triple Hecat’s team,
From the presence of the sun,