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He worked with unusual speed this morning, and ended by milking all the cows himself as a sort of savage penance for his misdeeds the previous evening, muttering in self-defense: "Seems 's if ever' cussid thing piles on to me at once. That corn, the road-tax, and hayin' comin' on, and now she gits her back up"
The boy still spoke sullenly, with his eyes turned away. Yet there was a curious softness in his voice that was always noticeable whenever he spoke of his father. "Yes. 'Twas just a little while before he died. We stopped 'most a week with a farmer. Dad helped about the hayin' and I did, too, some.
The years, o' course, had rubbed some of it off. Your face as you went on about the vision you called it, vision of what life could be. I knew that night there was things I never got wind of. When I went away knew I ought to go home to bed hayin' at daybreak. 'Go to bed? I said to myself. 'Strike this dead when you've never had it before, may never have it again? I climbed the hill.
"No," sez Josiah eagerly, "I wuz agoin' to tell you; I've got a wheel to home and a cylinder that come offen that old furnace regulator that didn't work, and I thought that with a little of Ury's help I could fix one up jest as good as this, and I could sell this for twice what I gin for it to Deacon Henzy or old Shelmadine, or rent it through hayin' and harvestin' to the brethren, or "
"Oh, Sister Arvilly!" sez Elder Wessel, and he looked as if he would faint away. And I too wuz shocked to my soul, specially as Josiah whispered kinder low to me: "Samantha, we might git a small idol whilst we're here. You know it would come handy in hayin' time and when the roads are drifted full."
"Where is your barn?" The farmer pointed across the fields to a story-and-a-half farmhouse, and standing near it a good-sized barn, brown from want of paint and exposure to sun and rain. The buildings were perhaps twenty-five rods distant. "Are you used to hayin'?" asked the farmer. "Well, no, not exactly; though I've handled a rake before." Carl's experience, however, had been very limited.
"Thank goodness, yes. One is bad enough, dear knows, but if there were more, ugh!" "What does Ben do?" "Do? Well, I wouldn't like to tell ye." "Does he work at anything, I mean?" "Not a tap. He depends upon his dad fer a livin'. See what he did this mornin'. Instead of stayin' home an' lookin' after the hayin', he went to the city.
Yer aunt and uncle will be stronger to stand yer comin' with the night's rest upon them. Ye wouldn't be routin' them out o' bed an' they after a hard day with the hayin'! Then, my kind-hearted lad, ye must give a thought to Michael Henry. He's still alive an' stronger than ever thank God!"
'Here shall come visions of a better world than was ever seen by you or me, old Indian chief. Oh, I was drunk, plum drunk. GRANDMOTHER: I should think you was. And what about the next day's hay? SILAS: A day in the hayfield is a day's hayin' but a night on the hill FELIX: We don't have them often, do we, Uncle Silas? SILAS: I wouldn't 'a' had that one but for your father, Felix.
"She wants a chance to dance with the New Yorker." "That's it exactly," Rose admitted. "Wal, if you'd churned and mopped and cooked for hayin' hands as I have today, you wouldn't be so full o' nonsense." "Oh, bother! Life's short. Come quick, get Bettie out. Come, Wes, never mind your hobbyhorse." By incredible exertion she got a set on the floor, and William got the fiddle in tune.
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