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Updated: June 4, 2025
"His father was a real smart man. There warn't no better hayin' hand in the county than Loammi Chirk. And I'm in hopes Zerubbabel will do as well, for he has a good friend in Farmer Hartley; no boy couldn't have a better." Eminence in the profession of "haying" was not precisely what Hilda had meant; but she said nothing. "And my poor girl here," Mrs.
'Bout the harvest, I guess," Rube said presently, adjusting his pipe in the corner of his mouth, and testing the draw of it. But his eyes were not raised to his companion's face. "Injuns ain't workin' well?" "Mebbe." "They're a queer lot." "Ye-es. I was kind o' figgerin'. We're mostly through hayin'." "I've got another slough to cut." "That's so. Down at the Red Willow bluff." The old man nodded.
"Can I wash my hands?" asked Carl. "Yes, you can go right to the sink and wash in the tin basin. There's a roll towel behind the door. Mis' Perkins" that was the way he addressed his wife "this is a young chap that I've hired to help me hayin'. You can set a chair for him at the table." "All right, Silas. He don't look very old, though." "No, ma'am.
"Is them gals hurt?" demanded the farmer. "I don't think so. But they are pretty well out of breath and scared." "Don't know how the pesky critter got loose," said Isaac Klem. "First thing I see he was after them gals lickety-split. I was out hayin', and I didn't wait, but picked up a pitchfork and a rope and run." "The girls lost their hats," said Sam, who had also come up.
"I kind o' wish you'd let me make the new ell two-story, father; 't wouldn't be much work, take it in slack time after hayin'." "Land o' Liberty! What do you want to do that for, Cephas? You 'bout pestered the life out o' me gittin' me to build the ell in the first place, when we didn't need it no more'n a toad does a pocketbook.
"Wa-al, maybe not exactly. Not in so many words. But he kind of hinted around and pecked around till I figgered that was what the ol' coot was gittin' at." "Um!... Didn't tell him nothin' of the kind, but as long's you're here you might as well set. Hain't seen much of you lately. How's the hayin'?" "Too much rain. Got her cocked twice and had to spread her ag'in to dry."
Jones now came out strong. "Neighbors," he said, "keep cool. The time to act hasn't come yet. See here, Bagley, it's hayin' and harvest. Our time's vallyble, whether yours is or not. You kin have just three minutes to decide whether you'll take your oath to stop your maraudin' and that of your children;" and he pulled out his watch. "Let me add my word," said a little man, stepping forward.
Bill is the undertaker's assistant, and is always on call in cases of emergency. "What happened, Bill?" "They thought they'd bury 'im this afternoon, but they took an' kep' 'im over till to-morrow." "But you came prepared." "Yas, no time to go home in hayin'. The pump fer me, and the black togs."
The river road leads to Edgewood 'n' Hillside, whar there's consid'able hayin' bein' done, as I happened to mention to Timothy this afternoon; and plenty o' blackberries 'side the road, 'specially after you pass the wood-pile on the left-hand side, whar there's a reg'lar garding of 'em right 'side of an old hoss-blanket that's layin' there; one that I happened to leave there one time when I was sleepin' ou'doors for my health, and that was this afternoon 'bout five o'clock, so I guess it hain't changed its location sence."
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