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Truth obliges me to confess that on that first night our bed was not an entire success. For convenience and economy we had laid it in a continuous stretch on the floor, with some hay beneath. There being not enough mattresses for all, I had built an extension of hay for the elder members of the family. It was the best hay, but I had used it too sparingly.
In his eagerness to escape the fall of the barn the German cadet had plunged into the hay open-mouthed, and now some of the stuff had entered his throat and was almost choking him. "Clap him on the back!" cried Dick, and Tom did as requested. Then came several gulps and Hans began to cough. But the danger from strangulation was over.
"The little sparks from the hay won't burn them. Or, if they do, we can have a pail of water ready." "That's a good idea," commented Mr. Stone, who was making the kedge anchor fast to the long rope. "Have several pails ready if you can. No telling when the sparks may come aboard too fast for us." "And we have fire extinguishers, too," said Betty. "Grace, you know where they are in the cabin.
'Which? and she consulted heaven with her bright eyes. 'Do I love both or neither? A little passionately not at all? Both or neither both, I believe; but at least I will make hay of Ratafia.
And then, from a little nest in the hay, crawled Freddie himself, rubbing his eyes, and pulling wisps from his tousled hair. "Have you been there all the while?" asked Harry. "I I guess so," answered Freddie, as if he hardly knew himself. "Well, then, why didn't you answer us?" asked Nan. "We were so frightened about you, Freddie. Why didn't you answer when we called?"
The bugle wakened them at dawn, but a good many of the cowpunchers were already up. Big Bill went to one of the haystacks to get feed for his horse. He gathered a great armful of hay and started away with it. A muffled voice inside wailed protest. "Lemme out, doggone it." Bill dropped the hay, and from it emerged a short and slender youth in uniform. He bristled up to the huge puncher.
To grind it, it is not necessary to cut it before grinding, it mills better if ground just as it comes from the stack. The cost of milling hay varies with the size of the machine, condition of hay, whether dry or damp, or whether tough or tender.
"Somebody must have hid the car here in the hay after they took it," said Tom. "Who do you s'pose it was?" "We thought it might be some of the Indians," said Bunny. "But my father made a search down in their village. He couldn't find anything, though. Now we have found something." "You don't s'pose Mr.
They were not stories of what had happened to his grandfather, but of what might happen to us. The half-holiday that Mr. Johnson's hay was carted we sat behind the farthest haycock all the afternoon with an old atlas on our knees, and Fred "supposed" till my brain whirled to think of all that was coming on us.
"When the snow got crusty and scraped his legs, Ben seemed to have a tired fit come over him, and began to come closer an' closer to the horse hovels to steal what loose hay he could. No one round the camp wanted to hurt him. After a time we all became sort of interested in him, and toled him up to the camp by leavin' hay an' grain round where he could get at it.
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