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They walked home in silence a striking-looking pair, with their great similar forms and their handsome similar faces, typical impersonations of the first generation that is sowing in labor, and the second generation that is reaping in idleness.
The sheets often bore the marks of the places to which they had been carried; from a mining district some would come coal-dust-blackened, which had been signed in the mines by workers who grudged to idleness the fruits of toil; from an agricultural district the sheets bore often far too many "crosses", the "marks" of those whom Church and landlord had left in ignorance, regarding them only as machines for sowing and reaping.
1st, To have all your clothes wet; 2d, To have a sick stomach; and, 3d, To be in a dreadful fright. "Now that was precisely my condition; and I was already reaping the fruits of my folly in running away from home and exchanging a farm for a forecastle."
The rush, the strain of the reaping gave place to a leisurely, steady, day-by-day garnering of the thoroughly seasoned shocks into great conical piles, four in a place in the midst of the stubble, which was already growing green with swiftly-springing weeds.
O no, Rosie dear, he's got his, and it's about time. I ain't worryin' over him, for all I like the old man but I believe the day of judgment begins here. He's reaping what he sowed and all I wonder at is that the harvest has been so late." "That's all right for you you're a Presbyterian," said Rosie tearfully, "but I belong to the Army.
When Time goes reaping he will gather us a sheaf, out of which the picture springs. 'There's our last lurch, glory to the breakwater! exclaimed Father Boyle, as the boat pitched finally outside the harbour fence, where a soft calm swell received them with the greeting of civilised sea-nymphs. 'The captain'll have a quieter passage across. You may spy him on the pier.
The Ploughman was quick and ready to do everything that he was told, and so he and the Farmer agreed well until the harvest came. But on a certain day when the reaping was over the Farmer said to him that he thought the corn was dry enough for putting in. The Ploughman tried a sheaf or two, and answered that it was not dry yet. But shortly after that day he said that it was now ready.
The archdeacon made a very good lunch, and talked to his host about turnip-drillers and new machines for reaping; while the host, thinking it only polite to attend to a stranger, and fearing that perhaps he might not care about turnip crops on a Sunday, mooted all manner of ecclesiastical subjects. 'I never saw a heavier lot of wheat, Thorne, than you've got there in the field beyond the copse.
Such unbroken array of declinations heartened him in his quest, and he was reaping his halcyon harvest as rapidly as he could. "I was going to put them on exhibition at the centennial, and make them the great feature of the day," mumbled the poet, apologetically. "So do! So do!" advised the Cap'n with bitter irony.
The first is that England lacks virility, is degenerate, has had her day of greatness; the second, that in the present war she is continuing what is alleged to have been her policy in the past, namely, pulling the strings and reaping the benefit while other nations do the fighting.
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