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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



TIIF.Y KEEP TOGETHER EVEN IN PREPARING THE SCYTHES FOR SHARPENING. 



•other time he might journey to town, 

 -or go to the circus, but not in haying 

 time. 



Haying begins early and ends late. 

 It requires a long day. Most farmers 

 supply a luncheon in the forenoon, an- 

 other in the afternoon, and in old-time 

 hayfields, a little stimulant was not 

 thought out of place at almost any 

 time. 



F< >r a man to have molasses and 

 vinegar and ginger in his drinking 

 water when digging potatoes or hoeing 

 corn, would be absurd, but what hay- 

 field is complete without this ambro- 

 sial, sour-sweet drink? Other occupa- 

 tions on the farm are plebian and pro- 

 saic when compared with haying; that 

 creates another and different atmos- 

 phere. Then even the sunlight is of a 



AS WITH AN ARMY DEVASTATION FOLLOWS THEIR ONWARD MARCH. 



