142 HAY-MAKING. 



women and children of the village. For this 

 operation any one can see that the regular 

 method in which the grass has been laid by the 

 mowers, makes the employment regular and 

 easy. The same plan is adopted. One takes 

 the first row, and the second follows on the 

 next, and so on. Now, we would not thank 

 any one to work, even for nothing, who should 

 conclude that the grass may be tossed about 

 with the fork, as a cow might do it with her 

 horns. If we have not sufficient confidence in 

 the day to shake it fairly out, we order the 

 swaths, which, perhaps, have lain already a 

 day, to be just turned over, without much dis- 

 turbing the mass as it grew together. If other- 

 wise, the separation of the swath must be 

 complete. We do not allow lumps of grass to 

 be thrown about, portions of ground to remain 

 uncovered, and so on ; but the entangled knots 



