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In reality, what was the struggle about? He was struggling for

every farthing of his share (and he could not help it, for he had

only to relax his efforts, and he would not have had the money to

pay his laborers' wages), while they were only struggling to be

able to do their work easily and agreeably, that is to say, as

they were used to doing it. It was for his interests that every

laborer should work as hard as possible, and that while doing so

he should keep his wits about him, so as to try not to break the

winnowing machines, the horse rakes, the thrashing machines, that

he should attend to what he was doing. What the laborer wanted

was to work as pleasantly as possible, with rests, and above all,

carelessly and heedlessly, without thinking. That summer Levin

saw this at every step.