Two Harvesters 
And I’m certain he ain’t getting the money I’d 
have given him.” 
“Never went out of the parish at all, then?” 
““ Never left it. And I met ’n the other day 
and he says, ‘Good evenin’, master. I shall 
look you up again next year.’” 
“ But the woman ?”’ 
“She went off when the haying was over. I 
asked her how she was going on. Oh, she said, 
she’d put by enough to pay her railway fare, 
and she was going to her own home in Shrop- 
shire.” 
That was all. I had got my idyll, then. But 
somehow it was not altogether satisfying. For 
one thing, there was too much railway in the end 
of it; and something of an earlier era would 
have been more appropriate to that season and 
that scene. 
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