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Updated: May 6, 2025
"What's this, anyhow? Auto-mobiles? As I live! Wa'al, I swan t' goodness! An' gals a-drivin' of 'em! Ho! ho! Wa'al, that's what I call rich yes, sir, rich!" A fringe of curious haymakers gathered behind the one who had entered first. "We only came in out of the rain," explained Cora, who was looking her prettiest in the confusion. "We hope we're not in the way."
Hill's rick of bark; it was M'Cormack himself, who, in the heat of his resentment for the insulting arrest of his countryman in the streets of Hereford, had instigated his fellow haymakers to this mischief; he headed them, and thought he was doing a clever, spirited action.
And the parson felt as harmless, if not as elegant a pleasure, in contemplating Widow Fairfield brimming high a glittering can, which she designed for the refreshment of the thirsty haymakers. Mrs.
How much the desire of giving our hostess a teetotal lecture for the benefit of the haymakers, had to do with his earliness, I don't know; but here he was, when I came down just before nine; and we are asked to dine there to-day. 'But Edith expects me back I cannot go, said Margaret, thankful to have so good an excuse. 'Yes! I know; so I told him. I thought you would not want to go.
And then, too, a whole nosegay of variegated blooms, with a faded leaf here and there, must be more agreeable to the eye than the same monotonous solitary lady's smock. But I fear these reflections are naughty; let us change them. Farmer," he said aloud, "I suppose your handsome daughters are too fine to assist you much. I did not see them among the haymakers."
"I shouldn't think of doing that, sir." "My dear boy, he is quite at your service; for goodness' sake do let me have a little wine, Frank quite at your service; any riding I have now is after the haymakers, and that's all on the grass." "Thank'ee, sir. Well, perhaps I will take a turn out of Ramble should I want it." "Do, and pray, pray take care of that black horse's legs.
Leonard, Peter, and Frank were loading the hay into a big wagon, while Donald raked after them. "There's a shower coming," said Uncle Robert, pointing toward the west. All paused and looked at the bank of clouds just coming into sight along the western horizon. The air was still and sultry. Great beads of perspiration rolled down the faces of the haymakers. "It's going to rain, sure," shouted Mr.
The haymakers paused and leaned upon their forks, children left the strawberry vines and climbed upon the fences, as the coach from the distant city dashed down the street towards the four corners, and the welcoming hotel, with its big dormer windows and well-carved veranda.
Roger, meanwhile, was being harnessed to the waggon. He was a handsome creature of his kind, and he knew it. As he turned his bright soft glance from side to side with a conscious pride in himself and his surroundings, he seemed to be perfectly aware that the knots of bright red ribbon tied in his long and heavy mane meant some sort of festival. When all was done the haymakers gathered round.
A brief silence reigned in the study, broken first by the shout of the haymakers and the rippling laugh of the children in the adjacent field, and then by the calm voice of the pastor: "I have offered you a home with me as long as I have a roof that I can call my own; but you prefer to go to New York, and henceforth I shall never cease to pray that your resolution may prove fortunate in all respects.
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