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Updated: June 15, 2025
He did not care for retired people as he said to the cob every evening he liked to see farm-work going on, or at any rate to hear all about it, and to listen to horses who had worked hard, and could scarcely speak, for chewing, about the great quantity they had turned of earth, and how they had answered very bad words with a bow.
He noticed too, before they left the place, that the customary farm-work was going ahead with even more regularity and energy than if the owner himself had been present. "Ham's farm'll look something like ours, one of these days," he said, "if things go on at this rate." "I mean it shall," replied his mother, a little sharply. "Now go and get out the ponies, and we'll do the rest of our errands."
"I trust, Ian, you will not go back to Russia!" said his mother, after a little more talk about frost-biting. "Surely there is work for you at home!" "What can I do at home, mother? You have no money to buy me a commission, and I am not much good at farm-work. Alister says I am not worth a horseman's wages!" "You could find teaching at home; or you could go into the church.
I want to work things out, not on paper in cold black and white; but in terms of growing things wild things out of the woods. You understand, I'm sure." The dawning light in his eyes told her that he did. "But I've had no experience," he hesitated. "Besides, I've considerable farm-work of my own to do. I've been hoeing potatoes all day.
Robert Wynn stole away in the beginning; he had come for an hour, merely to gratify their good neighbour Davidson; but, pressing as was his own farm-work, he found time to spend another hour at Daisy Burn, doing up some garden beds under direction of Miss Edith. She had come to look on him as a very good friend; and he well, there was some indefinable charm of manner about the young lady.
'It's the way of the world, sir, said Tregarva, 'judging carnal judgment, according to the sight of its own eyes; always looking at the outsides of things and men, sir, and never much deeper. But as for reading, sir, it's all very well for me, who have been a keeper and dawdled about like a gentleman with a gun over my arm; but did you ever do a good day's farm-work in your life?
And then I came home because my mother's brother, who was a manufacturer in Bradford, wrote to ask me. But when I arrived he was dead, and he had left me three thousand pounds. Then I went to Swanley and got trained for farm-work. And I found Janet Leighton, and we made friends. And I love farm-work and I love Janet and the whole world looks so different to me!
The younger boy, Bill, is six years younger and still at school, and having been a delicate child, or as his mother puts it, 'enjoying bad health, is not promising for farm-work, and, being fond of his book and a favourite at school, his mother cherishes hopes of his becoming a school-teacher in days to come.
The horses do all the ploughing, sowing, hoeing, harvesting, and, in fact, pretty much all the farm-work; while the man sits up on a sulky-seat and fans himself with a palm-leaf hat. So that, according to my reckoning, one man here counts for about as much as four in our country. "I have moved from where I first settled, which was in a county adjoining this.
It was now high time to work very hard; both to make up for the farm-work lost during the months of frost and snow, and also to be ready for a great and vicious attack from the Doones, who would burn us in our beds at the earliest opportunity. Nevertheless, there was yard work, and house work, and tendence of stock, enough to save any man from idleness. As for Lorna, she would come out.
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