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Soon, too, they saw the familiar posters: PICKERS WANTED; and the Reo followed the signs to the fields. They were pea-fields, this time, but Grandma, peering at the pea-pickers' camp, cried, "My land, if this ain't Floridy all over again!"
These bye-roads, of which there are so many along the Somersetshire coast, are often very lonely, they are dangerous to traffic, as no two ordinary sized vehicles can pass each other conveniently within so narrow a compass, and in summer especially they are haunted by gypsies, "pea-pickers," and ill-favoured men and women of the "tramp" species, slouching along across country from Bristol to Minehead, and so over Countisbury Hill into Devon.
This was the season when the neighbourhood was annually invaded by troops of pea-pickers a very miscellaneous collection of humanity comprising at the one extreme broken army men and university graduates, and at the other the lowest riff-raff of the towns.
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