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Updated: July 13, 2025
This alarmed Lenore, yet it also thrilled her. The threshing-machine burned like a house of cards. Farm-hands came running from all over the field. But nothing, manifestly, could be done to save the thresher. Anderson, holding his daughter's arm, calmly watched it burn. There was excitement all around; it had not been communicated, however, to the rancher. He looked thoughtful.
They were sometimes used as tractors to pull heavy loads and, if the owner also happened to be in the threshing-machine business, he hitched his threshing machine and other paraphernalia to the engine in moving from farm to farm. What bothered me was the weight and the cost. They weighed a couple of tons and were far too expensive to be owned by other than a farmer with a great deal of land.
I hope Allen won't knock down the house with that threshing-machine of his. That's all this time. Let me see you'd better tell your editor to call on me now and then. What did you say his name was, Morton?" "Atwill Arthur P." "Is he a son of that Ebenezer Atwill who used to be a professor in Asbury College?"
What in the world did he say when he proposed to you? Or did his mother do it for him?" "Don't jest all the time," said Toni, really angry now. "It's only in your presence he's so silent; when we're alone he can talk glibly enough." "Yes, over the new threshing-machine which he has invented himself. I heard him talking about it just as I came in, and you were listening all ears.
So Johnnie Green rigged up a trap, which he made from an old box, a few sticks, and a bit of string. And one noon, while the men were eating their lunch under some trees a little way from the threshing-machine, Frisky Squirrel was just reckless enough to steal up and try to get his luncheon too, by eating some of the wheat-kernels.
They are manoeuvring with all sorts of noises about them even racing in a circle while grenades and guns are fired. In spite of all that, there came near being a lovely accident right in front of the gate half an hour ago. The threshing-machine is at work in front of the old grange on the other side of the road, just above my house.
We call it oatmeal. The oats for the horses are not flat but round like little seeds, and are not cooked on any stove. Farmer Green cuts the stalks in the oat field. Then he takes them to the threshing-machine, which knocks the little oats off the stalks. Then they are put in bags to keep for the horses. But the little black colt with the funny long legs does not eat them.
To begin with, he was not so much in the shop. His absences in the Terrace at meal-times made a great gap in the day, and Tom Catchpole was constantly left in sole charge. Mr. Bellamy came home one evening and told his wife that he had called at Furze's to ask the meaning of a letter Furze had signed, explaining the action of a threshing-machine which was out of order.
The Oriental farmer, unable to send to England for a threshing-machine, is obliged to go out and gather his wild mares from the plain to tread out his wheat, and I, in like manner, having only a few scattered ranchos to draw my soldiers from, must be satisfied to do what I can with them.
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