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The hay is carried to the stack in wagons, but where 

 the fields were flat, they availed themselves of a very 

 handy plan, which consisted in this, that they had a rope 

 which was fastened to the harness or iron chains with 

 which the horse drew. This rope was set round about 

 the cock, and was turned down at the back and passed 

 underneath it, and afterwards the rope was fastened by a 

 loop to the chain, when the horse ran the whole cock to 

 the stack, which was then being made in the field. There 

 seemed to be little or no hay left behind the cock on the 

 field [T. II. p. 33], but the cock came almost entire to the 

 place. Instead of a bridge, they filled the dike with hay, 

 over which they drove. 



Hdstackarna, the haystacks are made either round 

 as in Fig. 1, or oblong, and in the shape of a house, as 

 Fig. 2. 





As the hay-stack was made the hay was trodden down at 

 once, so that it might lie steady. At the beginning, and 

 while the stack is still low, they have horses on it to 

 trample the hay ; afterwards, higher up, the trampling is 

 done by many men. When they have got the stack ready 

 in one of the aforenamed shapes, the sides L N and M O 

 in Fig. 1, and E F and C D G H in Fig. 2, are cut with 



