These embossed books, unobliterated by the tears and laughter of Time, Are signed with the vital hands of undaunted men.

A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.

All this would tend to make a free life on the ocean wave more tempting to the lotless sons of the peasantry than a toilsome existence ashore. Sword and spear offered a better living than hoe or plough-hook.

I wondered if someone watching might consider that a 'plan' and feel compelled to, well, build a fence. My own reaction was to roffle and say, Now ain't that a woman.