Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Jerrold’s line personifies the earth as a generous, responsive partner: treat the soil with even modest, good-humored effort (“tickle her with a hoe”) and it answers with abundance (“laughs with a harvest”). The metaphor compresses an agrarian ethic—work is not merely toil but a kind of conversation with nature, where care and cultivation elicit reward. It also carries a social undertone typical of Jerrold’s wit: prosperity is imagined as accessible through honest labor rather than privilege, and the earth’s “kindness” contrasts with human systems that can be harsher or less fair. The phrasing turns farming into a comic, affectionate image, making productivity feel natural and hopeful.