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It had been such a good excuse to be with Elizabeth that Aunt Susan had persuaded the long-suffering Nathan that her presence beside her was a thing not to be denied, and Nathan, glad to see Sue so happy, ate many a cold meal that haying season and did not complain. It was a great event in Susan Hornby's life.
As he walked slowly down to the beach, he said to himself: "Haying! By Jove!" and this was pretty much all he thought during the whole of the hour that he spent in rowing to and from the Safe Haven wharf. "Haying!" he ejaculated again, and again. "What a woman that is! I believe if we were all dead, she'd have just as keen an eye to that haying!" By "we all" in that sentence of his soliloquy, Dr.
The Professor went back into his study, and Claude was pleased to see that he carried the manuscript with him and did not leave it on the table with the others. Between haying and harvest that summer Ralph and Mr. Wheeler drove to Denver in the big car, leaving Claude and Dan to cultivate the corn. When they returned Mr. Wheeler announced that he had a secret.
At the expiration of the period, the war and the growing importance of the overland route made steamship service by way of the Isthmus quite obsolete. The contractors are said to have been awarded $50,000 by the Government for their trouble in haying the agreement broken. See page 153. Holladay secured possession of the outfits of the C. O. C. & P. P. Exp.
In Ayrshire, I have started out with a haying party of twenty ten men and ten women at six o'clock in the morning and worked until six at night. I never worked so hard, nor did so much. All day long there was a fire of jokes and jolly gibes, interspersed with song, while beneath all ran a gentle hum of confidential interchange of thought.
There were other odds and ends, too, but it appeared obvious that haying operations were carried on in this direction, and this old corral so found its uses. After glancing casually in the direction of these things Charlie passed round to the door of the hut. And herein his purpose became more obscure. The place was heavily thatched and suggested long disuse.
The clearing was clothed in soft, late, second-growth grass, and had plainly been mown at haying time and pastured on since.
As she had been there a week, the excitement attendant on her arrival had so far subsided that grandma was beginning to turn her attention to cheese-making, her two aunties to sew vigorously on their new cambric dresses, and grandpa and the big hired man to become so engaged in the "haying" that they scarcely saw Lily-toes except at supper-time.
To Landers, who owned the marsh on both shores of the river, he tried to sell the newest development in mowing machines, and his manner of doing so was to hitch to the newly arrived machine, haul it to Landers's meadow where the owner was haying drag it through the gate, and unhitch. "Here," he said, "try this here machine.
"He didn't get into a bees' nest did he?" asked Marthy looking around in bewilderment. The Woman threw up her hands in sudden enlightment. "I'll bet I'll bet he's off!" she gasped. "He's off to the war an' the hayin's hardly over, an' the harvest jist comin' on! If that don't beat " But Trooper gave not a thought to either haying or harvest.
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