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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I've heard you'd got a mowing-machine," says he, "and I've brought along a patent raker thing that's handy to have." And he points to the load on the cart. There it stood, red and blue, a huge comb, a hayrake to be driven with horses. They lifted it out of the cart and looked at it; Isak harnessed himself to the thing and tried it over the ground. No wonder his mouth opened wide!
He let them down into the water, so that the weight might swing them inboard, while the other signaller struggled manfully with a hayrake to grapple them; and the Captain cursed and Mac flushed all over, knowing that every ship in the fleet was grinning at them. Two days out from King George's Sound the fleet was joined by two more transports with Australian troops from Fremantle.
Second: We must learn that the least thing may hinder his work in us. It became necessary for me recently to purchase a hayrake.
Such is the luck of war. I made up my mind that if I ever got under shell-fire I would make for the hayrake and avoid the windmill. Our tall major pointed out all the fluctuating positions during the battle. It was like hearing a chess match explained from memory by an expert. Words to him were something precious. He made each one count as he would the shots from his cannon.
I always hate to hear the clatter of the mowing machine," he groaned. "It means that the hayrake will come out of the shed next." Henrietta Hen caught her breath. "The mowing machine!" she gasped. "Is Farmer Green going to use the mowing machine now?" "Certainly!" said Ebenezer. "I hear he's going to harness the bays to it to-morrow morning." "My! my!" Henrietta wailed.
Henrietta Hen remarked that she wasn't at all interested in the news. "And I don't see why you should sigh," she added. "Goodness knows you'll eat your share of the hay and probably more before the winter's over." "It's the work that I'm thinking of," Ebenezer explained. "They'll hitch me to the hayrake and Johnnie Green will drive me all day long in the hot hayfields.
There had been so much rain early in the summer that even by the middle of August Farmer Green had not been able to finish his haying. His son Johnnie was sorry, too because he had to work in the hot hayfield almost every day, when he would far rather have gone swimming in the mill-pond, under the shade of the great willow. Sometimes Johnnie rode on the hayrake.
Yet courage; for on the rail of yonder wooden bridge sits, chatting with a sun-browned nymph, her bonnet pushed over her face, her hayrake in her hand, a river-god in coat of velveteen, elbow on knee and pipe in mouth, who, rising when he sees us, lifts his wide-awake, and halloas back a roar of comfort to our mystic adjuration, 'Keeper! Is the fly up? 'Mortial strong last night, gentlemen.
You don't have to pull the mowing machine nor the hayrake. Besides, didn't you just tell me that my news about haying didn't interest you?" "But it does!" Henrietta cried. "I was mistaken. It means everything to me. It's the worst news I ever heard in all my life." Old Ebenezer looked down at her with mild astonishment on his long, honest face. "Why is it bad news?" he inquired.
Several times as many mowers as harvesters are sold, and for that matter, reapers without binding attachments are still manufactured. Hayrakes and tedders seem to have developed almost of themselves. Diligent research has failed to discover any reliable information on the invention of the hayrake, though a horserake was patented as early as 1818.
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