It was quite impossible to ride over the deeply-ploughed field; the earth bore only where there was still a little ice, in the thawed furrows the horse's legs sank in above its pasterns.
Per i solchi arati non si poteva proprio passare; solo dove c’era un po’ di ghiaccio il terreno sosteneva, ma nei solchi disgelati la zampa affondava fino a sopra il ginocchio.