MINSTREL WEATHER *$ CHAPTER 

 VI. HAY HARVEST TIME ? ^ 



Y the manifold hayfields only, 

 were her wild-rose token ban- 

 ished, a traveler returning 

 from another land to our 

 June, not knowing the time 

 of year, might name the month. In days 

 just before hay harvest the glistening 

 dance of meadow grasses is most splen- 

 did, their soft obedience to the winds is 

 readiest. Deep rose plumes of sorrel, the 

 wine-colored red-top, smoky heads of tim- 

 othy, are forever aripple, and, though 

 overstrewn with flowers, they reveal when 

 bent beneath the step of the southwest 

 breeze a thousand lowlier flowers near the 

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