. Country life reader . It was a good year for The fruits of autumn. THE SONG OF MILO, THE FARM-HAND O Demeter, abounding in fruit and ears of the harvest,Well may this fiejd be worked and yield a crop beyond measure!Hard, bind hard, ye binders, the sheaves, lest ever a passerSay, These men are poor sticks, and their pay is cash out of the north wind let your sw^ath of grain in the cuttingLook, or else to the west, for thus the ear will grow , threshing the corn, should shun the slumbers of noonday;That is the very hour when the chaff flies off from the wh
. Country life reader . It was a good year for The fruits of autumn. THE SONG OF MILO, THE FARM-HAND O Demeter, abounding in fruit and ears of the harvest,Well may this fiejd be worked and yield a crop beyond measure!Hard, bind hard, ye binders, the sheaves, lest ever a passerSay, These men are poor sticks, and their pay is cash out of the north wind let your sw^ath of grain in the cuttingLook, or else to the west, for thus the ear will grow , threshing the corn, should shun the slumbers of noonday;That is the very hour when the chaff flies off from the wheat , begin your toil when the tuft lark soars from the meadow: Cease when he sleeps: besides, in the heat of the day take your leisure. t- r- o - E. C. Stedman. 234 THE APPLE HARVEST You see each day through September that the applesare getting larger and redder or more golden. Naturenever forgets the beautiful in preparing the useful; andso beautiful is the orchard hanging full of apples that itseems almost a sacrilege to pluck them. B
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