freshly-reaped

Updated: May 6, 2025

Well, my beavers, you may go and build dams with your bolsters. Your dam stopped the stream; the clay you took for it left a channel through which it has run down and ruined about seven pounds' worth of freshly-reaped barley. Luckily the farmer found it out in time or you might have spoiled seventy pounds' worth. And you burned a bridge yesterday. We said we were sorry.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods