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Updated: May 6, 2025
They sat outside the bath house and picked the flax to pieces. Then they beat it with swingles, to separate the fine white fibres from the dry stems. As they worked, the women grew gray with dust; their hair and clothing were covered with flax seed, but they did not seem to mind it.
Whitmore won't like it if if " While I stammered on, Mr. Rogers pulled up the mare, quartering at the same time to make room for the mail-coach as it thundered up the road from westward and swept by at the gallop, with lamps flashing and bits and swingles shaken in chorus. "Look here, what's the matter?" he demanded. "Why don't you want to meet Whitmore?"
All day the swingles pounded, and the chatter went on, so that when one went near the old bath house it sounded as if a blustering storm had broken loose there. After the work with the flax, came the big hard-tack baking, the sheep shearing, and the servants' moving time.
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