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She had let her cottage to holiday folk, and was spending a month on the Moor. Mrs. Blanchard surveyed the scene from under her sunbonnet and nodded. "Spare no trouble, no trouble, an' have it stacked come Saturday. Theer'll be thunder an' gert rains after this heat. Be the rushes ready for thatchin' of it?" "Not yet; but that's not to say I've forgot."
"It's too rank they're growin' altogether," he said; "ne'er a big crop you'll get under that heigth of haulms. 'Heavy thatchin' and light liftin', as the sayin' is." To Felix O'Beirne the smooth leafy surface recalled a far-off incident of the War, when the dense foliage of a certain potato-field had permitted the execution of a curious military manoeuvre.
"Yes, I've done it many's a time. Grape vines, too." Who taught him? "Oh, 'twas my old uncle made me do that. He was laid up one time 'twas when I was eighteen year old and he says to me: 'You'll ha' to do it. Now's your time to learn.... Of course he showed me how. So 'twas he as showed me how to thatch.... My father never knowed how to do thatchin', nor anythink else much.
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