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you must see that it is not possible to allow another 

 man to take his place. Of course it is most annoying, 

 but we must wait until " 



" Wait ! Wait for a man at harvest-time ! My, 

 if that don't tickle a feller some ! There's no 

 favours in a free country where you're paying a man 

 good money. You leave Jack to me. The wheat 

 is shelling all the time. I'm on this here binder and I 

 guess I'm stopping on it till he comes' along. All the 

 English greenhorns I've been up against yet I never 

 heard of stopping the binder because a man " 



" Be quiet ! " I shouted. " And if you are going 

 on, go on and don't talk so much." 



" No offence meant nor need be taken," was the 

 complacent comment. " I've teached them all 

 some. And I guess you'll larn." 



At dinner-time the missing man returned. He 

 had the pleasantest way of being sorry about things 

 without actually putting it into words, and I was 

 relieved to find that he took the Great Boaster's 

 presence on the binder as a matter of course. Our 

 neighbour arrived in due time, and by Saturday 

 noon the wheat was finished, and by evening the 

 five acres of oats were laid low. The stookers, how- 

 ever, were miles behind ; but harvest was gathered. 

 Its labour account ran : 



Binder-man with team, 6 days at 

 $4, and one day team only . 

 Stooker, 12 days at $1.50 . 

 Stooker, 12 days 



Total . . . $64.75 

 As the general law of the harvest-field in Canada 



