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Updated: June 15, 2025
You should have heard old John Thresher and Mark Sweetwinter and the others grumbling at the interference of "French frogs;" with their beef, though Alphonse vowed he only ordered the ox to be turned faster, and he dressed their potatoes in six different ways. I doubt if Dipwell has composed itself yet.
The men working on the top of the thresher showed bronzed against the luminous blue, their shirts as brightly white as the clouds, the shadows under their slouched hats lying soft and blue across their clear eyes. Poised on the stacks the men were busy feeding the sheaves to the men on the thresher, who in their turn tilted them into the great concave drum in its hidden heart.
Out on the farm my first experiments were with tractors, and it will be remembered that I was employed for some time by a manufacturer of steam tractors the big heavy road and thresher engines. But I did not see any future for the large tractors. They were too expensive for the small farm, required too much skill to operate, and were much too heavy as compared with the pull they exerted.
When the drone of the thresher breaks through the autumn sighing of trees and wind, or through that stillness of the first frost, I get restless and more restless, till, throwing down my pen, I have gone out to see. For there is nothing like the sight of threshing for making one feel good not in the sense of comfort, but at heart.
And now to see the bed you have slept in. Martha Thresher showed him the bed, showed him flowers I had planted, and a Spanish chestnut tree just peeping. 'Ha! said he, beaming at every fresh sight of my doings: 'madam, I am your life-long debtor and friend! He kissed her on the cheek. John Thresher cried out: 'Why, dame, you trembles like a maid.
In those days folks did their own work. Then there was time for everything. But the days are not as long as they used to be when I was young. Now there's no time for anything. "But Noel was a good man. He was handy, and amiable. He could lay a roof, or mend a thresher, it was all the same to him. What do you think, Jeminy? Anna Barly won't forget him in a hurry heh?" "No," said Mr.
The foreman darted among the groups of watchers and his distress was very plain. Dorn had gotten out of sight. Lenore still held his coat and wondered what he was doing. She was thoroughly angry and marveled at her father's composure. The big thresher was reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order. Dorn came striding up. His face was pale and his mouth set. "Mr.
I had given them some extraordinary proof of my love for my father. The impression I received was, that sitting was the thing to conjure him to me. 'Where his heart's not concerned, Mrs. Waddy remarked of me flatteringly, 'he's shrewd as a little schoolmaster. 'He've a bird's-nesting eye, said Mrs. Thresher, whose face I was studying.
Suddenly, the thresher gave another violent bound upwards into the air from the surface of the ensanguined water, leaping almost over the whale; and, as he fell back again into the sea, his tail, which was bent like a bow, delivered a terrible lash, surpassing any of its previous attempts.
Old memories Hindon as a borough and as a village The Lamb Inn and its birds The "mob" at Hindon The blind smuggler Rawlings of Lower Pertwood Farm Reed, the thresher and deer-stealer He leaves a fortune Devotion to work Old Father Time Groveley Wood and the people's rights Grace Reed and the Earl of Pembroke An illusion of the very aged Sedan-chairs in Bath Stick-gathering by the poor Game-preserving
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