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forks lhake and throw-off the ftraw, which 

 is piled in heaps by others with longer imple- 

 ments. 



Finally, the rake-men run off the feed, 

 with the heads of their rakes thruft before 

 them ; forcing the feed into recefTes formed 

 within the ring, or upon the corners of the 

 cloth ; where groups of fillers, riddlers, 

 &c. &c. are employed in feparating the feed 

 from the principal part of the pods and Ihort 

 ftraws which beat off in thrafhing; while 

 Others are equally bufy in putting the un- 

 winnovved feed into bags, and carrying it to 

 the " pie" or the waggon. 



Toward the clofe of the day, when the 

 ftraw has rifen into mountainous heaps of al- 

 mofl fnowy whitenefs ; when the field of em- 

 ployment appears on its largeft fcale j when 

 every department is in full work j and when 

 every individual is animated, and not yet fa- 

 tiated, with the entertainment of the day ; 

 the rape - thralhing affords the contem- 

 plative mind a pleating fight ; and would 

 afford the pencil a moft pi&urefque fubjeft. 



The two divifions of thraihers moving in 

 ^lofe phalanx, with flails nimbly brandifh- 



