APPENDIX. 
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Autumn . 
(1) The heat of autumn is (feels) strong. 
(2) In autumn the harvest comes, and the fields are cut, sheaves are 
made. 
(3) All fruit cooks (ripens). 
(4) The sheaves they carry with donkeys to the thrashing floor. 
(5) There they build a heap for drying. 
(6) When it is dry, a herd (of animals) turns it about (thrashes it 
by walking through it). 
(7) The grain comes out, and they winnow it. 
(8) Empty ears, full (fat) ears. 
(9) Long straw, broken straw, weeds. 
(10) Spring is the time of working, autumn the time of gathering. 
(11) Whilst looking at the fine barley of Gangles (a village), the beards 
of ears of Spittug are even lost. 
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Winter. 
(1) Winter is fettered with ice. 
(2) Bavens and crows come down to the villages. 
(3) Because the hill tops are covered with snow, the animals (creatures) 
of the hills come down to the cultivated land. 
(4) Men catch and eat the birds and fowl of the hills. 
(5) Daring the three winter months the farmers are without work, and 
give feasts to one another. 
(6) When all the money is entirely finished, they sit bent down. 
(7) If the snow is not shovelled (thrown) from the roof, water comes 
through it. 
(8) The sky is cloudy. The stars become bright. 
(9) The goats, knowing the taste (of the grass) etc, come into the 
garden. 
(10) To slide on the ice. To stumble down. 
CD The road is slippery. 
Time. 
(1) Past, present, future. 
(2) Morning ; very early in the morning, with the first dim light, 
with the first cockcrow, when the sky rises. 
(3) First breakfast, second breakfast, midday meal, evening meal. 
(4) Midday. 
(5) Evening ; when getting dark, when the sun is setting. 
