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"Yes; it will be hay-cutting time soon, and a gentleman that has a farm near Ravenna came across to Bastia the other day and told me there's plenty of work to be got there." "I hope you'll find it so, I'm sure, but times are bad hereabouts." "They're worse in Corsica, mother. I don't know what we poor folk are coming to." "Have you come over alone?"
Bass-wood is more commonly used for the first fences, because it is to be procured in greater abundance, and splits more easily; but as it will not last more than ten years, I would not recommend settlers to use it, if the other sorts can readily be obtained. In this country, hay-cutting commences about the first or second week in July.
That's all there is, and while it makes good enough dog-feed, a horse isn't built that way. There's no hay-cutting section up there, and your horse would starve to death before you had a chance to ride him. And even supposing that you could keep him alive, I don't believe you could ride him over the tundra swamps; there is no horse made that could keep his footing on those marshy tussocks."
When Russia desires them she will doubtless extend her protection, and I observed during my voyage that several islands were occupied by Russian settlers for hay-cutting and other purposes. Why could not an enterprising man of destiny like the grey-eyed Walker or unhappy Maximilian penetrate the Amoor and found a new government on an island that nobody owns?
But no houses were built on it, and there were only a few lonely paths across this meadow stretch. In the Summer a few men cut a coarse kind of hay that grew on the meadows, but as hay-cutting is not done in Winter no one now had any reason for going to the meadows. "Well, we mustn't stand still," said Flossie, after a bit. "Why not?" asked Freddie. "Can't you stand still when you're tired?"
"Yes, but it must be difficult not to think, sitting here all alone." "One mustn't allow one's self to give way. One would break down if one did. I've some friends, and in the evening I get plenty of exercise." "What do you do in the evenings?" "I turn a hay-cutting machine in a stable." "And you're quite contented?"
The village elder was at first surprised; but the hay-cutting had just begun; Gerasim was a first-rate mower, and they put a scythe into his hand on the spot, and he went to mow in his old way, mowing so that the peasants were fairly astounded as they watched his wide sweeping strokes and the heaps he raked together. . . . In Moscow the day after Gerasim's flight they missed him.
There was a short silence, in which she began to realize her peculiar position. This man was the rival of Transley and Linder in the business of hay-cutting in the valley. He was the foreman of the Landson crowd Landson, against whom her father had been voicing something very near to murder threats not many hours ago.
My father, in addition to his professional duties, sometimes did a little farming in an amateurish sort of way. He did not keep a regular staff of labourers, and consequently when anything extra had to be done, such as hay-cutting or harvesting, he used to employ day-labourers to help with the work. At such times I used to enjoy being in the fields with the men, listening to their conversation.
When you see me again you will think I am wearing a feather duster, but it is only that I have been said to have almost as much sense as a "mon," and that is an honor I never aspired to, even in my wildest dreams. I have done most of my cooking at night, have milked seven cows every day, and have done all the hay-cutting, so you see I have been working.
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