THE OUTDOOR WORLD 



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FORENOON— THE RANK AND FILE OF MOWERS. 



work smoothly! But over that early 

 formative period of experimenting in 

 the best method to rouse a sleepy boy, 

 there are some things, out of respect 

 to the father, that are not to be de- 

 scribed at this late date. Suffice to say 

 that he substituted the ludicrously im- 

 possible for the catastrophical, — and it 

 is by odd yet harmless mix-ups that 



he will best be remembered. 



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If it has taken long to tell how the 

 boy was called, then vice versa the cases 



are parallel. It took the boy long to 

 respond,. But it really was early, 

 though the boy had a conscience- 

 stricken feeling that he had not been 

 participating in the music of the grind- 

 stone just under his window. Did all 

 mornings in haying time begin with 

 the yaw-hawing of men, the metallic 

 striking of scythes on a purring grind- 

 stone, with anon a squeak and with 

 the crisp, rythmic swis-s-ching in dew- 

 covered grass, with John's jolly call, 

 as the boy appeared at the corner of 





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AFTERNOON— GETTING THE CROP TOGETHER. 



