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Updated: June 17, 2025
While the children were sleeping, peacefully lulled by the drowsy hum of many neighborly mosquitoes, the family at home were in a great state of agitation. The hay-cart came at five, and all but Jack, Emil, Nan, and Rob were at the bars ready for it.
"What a happy little party," said Aunt Emma to mother looking round the field; "there's nothing like hay for children." By this time the hay-cart was quite full, and crack went John Backhouse's whip, as he took hold of the first horse's head and gave him a pull forward to start the cart on its way to the farm.
He swooned again at the first attempt to lift him, and a hay-cart having been left in the flight of the marauders, he was laid in it, and covered with the King's cloak, to be conveyed to Corbeil, where James trusted to secure his life by personal intercession with Henry.
"Moreover," he continued, stroking his beard and selecting his words with the precision of the careful linguist that he was, "this secretary of mine, after an interview of most disconcerting candor, took to the road and a hay-cart in a dudgeon, constituting himself, in a characteristic outburst of suspicion, quixotism, chivalry and protection, a sentinel to whom lack of sleep, the discomforts of a hay-camp and er spying black-and-tans were nothing.
Hurriedly we followed the hound's track, and soon came out upon the high-road. In the gloom a hay-cart drawn by four oxen, was quietly making its way to its destination. "God be praised!" said the old farm-laborer, as he recognized my brother. "For ever and ever." After a slight pause my brother asked him if there was anything wrong? "You needn't fear, it will be all right."
"I am afraid you did not make a song today, while loading the hay-cart," said she, "as Burns did, when he was reaping barley." "Burns never made a song in haying-time," I answered very positively. "He was no poet while a farmer, and no farmer while a poet." "And on the whole, which of the two characters do you like best?" asked Zenobia.
He began very well, for Bellew, in the morning he walked very nearly five miles, and, in the afternoon, before he was discovered, he accomplished ten more on a hay-cart that happened to be going in his direction. No sir, 'not for Cadwallader and all his goats! THE WAGGONER. You jest get down out o' my hay, now come! If ye don't get down out o' my hay, I'll come an' throw ye out.
In the morning nothing would make the car budge an inch, and, seeing our difficulty, the Mahomedans made us pay a good deal for horses to tow the thing to the next village, where we heard there was a blacksmith. We followed in a hay-cart.
They were just finishing tea when there was a great clatter outside, and by came the hay-cart with John Backhouse leading the horse, and two men walking beside it. "We're going to carry all the hay in yon lower field presently," he shouted to his wife as he passed. "Send the young 'uns down to see."
Indeed I hardly know how we could get as far as Reading; for all the world is in the hay-field, and even the old horse must go thither too, and take his turn at the hay-cart. Well, the rocks have been where they are for many a year, and they will wait our leisure patiently enough: but Midsummer and the hay- field will not wait.
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