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The slide or sledge is seen in the fields; the flail, with its monotonous strokes, resounds from the barn-floors; the corn is sifted by the windstow the wind merely blowing away the chaff from the grain when shaken out of sieves by the motion of the hand on some elevated spot; the old wooden plough is still at work, and the goad is still used to urge the yoke of oxen in dragging it along.
In the wildest parts of the way, the large flat stones, that formed a continuous road, serve for barn-floors or rather threshing-floors that require no barns on which long-horned cattle tread out, without any chance of bad weather to injure, the golden grain of the Sicilian harvest.
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