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If I am a beau, I can never think of wearing a spring-velvet in winter; and if I am not a beau, why then, that explains itself. But let me go on to your two next strange lines: "'And bring with you a wig, that is modish and gay, To dance with the girls that are makers of hay.
"'You take your cheeses there as it is, I used to tell them, 'why not take poultry, eggs, vegetables, game, hay and straw, and so forth? All my counsels were a source of fortune; it was a question of who should follow them first.
She sustains the old traditions of her family, who were ever strong and true, and she has a clever tongue, which neither you nor I have, Jack, nor Hay either, good fellow though he be, and that is not a bad thing for a woman nowadays. They would make a handsome pair, as they ought, with such good-looking fathers, eh? Well, I am coming to my point, for in those circumstances I want your help.
For two more days they traveled on, stopping each night near some village or small city. Nothing happened except that once they nearly ran into a hay wagon that did not get out of the way in time. "But it wouldn't hurt any more to hit a hay wagon than it would be to fall into a feather bed," said Bunny. It was just about supper time.
I'm thinking you, yourselves, justify the existence of us old Johnnies and give us a clear title to live a little while longer, reunite once a year, sing the old songs, speechify, parade, bivouac a few more times together and be as disorderly as we damn please, in this or any other city's hay market.
Entre las otras hay vna tierra tan rica de oro, que no lo estiman en nada: y hay tãta cãtidad de canela que la quemã en lugar de leñares de tan luzida gente, q la ygualan con España.
The member may pay in money or in kind; he may sell and pay his tenth in dollars, or he may bring to the tithing yard his butter, or eggs, or hay, or wheat, or whatever he shall raise as the harvest of his labors. In the old time the President of the Church was the temporal as well as spiritual head.
Then you will breakfast with us. Indeed, may I not give you a cup of coffee now, Mrs. Hay?" But Mrs. Hay said no. She had had coffee before coming. She would go and see if there was anything they could do for Field, and would try again to induce Mrs. Dade to listen to certain of her explanations. But Mrs. Dade was silent and preoccupied.
"Yes, I know," she said, nodding her head. "Remember the old man at Tore Peak? I don't think I'll ever forget him. In a certain number of years I shall be like him perhaps not quite so old. Then I shall be a child again with age. One day he came out, and went down to the field. I saw him; he had mittens on. You know he eats all sorts of things, and I saw him lie down and eat the hay."
It required a certain happiness of disposition to look forward hopefully, from so dismal a beginning, across the brief hours of night, to the warm shining of to-morrow's sun. But the hay arrived at last, and we turned, with our last spark of courage, to the bedroom.
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